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crookedness

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Etymology

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Fromcrooked +‎-ness.

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Noun

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crookedness (countable anduncountable,pluralcrookednesses)

  1. The state of beingcrooked
    • 1880,Mark Twain, chapter 14, inA Tramp Abroad‎[1]:
      The river was full of logs—long, slender, barkless pine logs—and we leaned on the rails of the bridge, and watched the men put them together into rafts. These rafts were of a shape and construction to suit thecrookedness and extreme narrowness of theNeckar.
    • 1924,Herman Melville, chapter 2, inBilly Budd‎[2]:
      But are sailors[…] without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake ofcrookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint; frank manifestations in accordance with natural law.
    • 1944,Emily Carr, “Mean Baby”, inThe House of All Sorts:
      She had cost me two tenants and no end of sleep, had heated my temper to boiling, yet, somehow I could not hate that baby. The meanest thing about her was the way she could make you feel yourself. One has to make a living and one must sleep. It is one of thecrookednesses of life when a little yellow-haired baby can cause you so much trouble and yet won't even let you hate her.

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state of being crooked
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