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crookedness en · NOUN

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Etymology

Etymology tree English crooked Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English crookedness From crooked + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The state of being crooked
   • 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 the crookednesses of life when a little yellow-haired baby can cause you so much trouble and yet won't even let you hate her. 1944, Emily Carr, “Mean Baby”, in The House of All Sorts:
   • But are sailors […] without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedness of heart, seeming less to proceed from viciousness than exuberance of vitality after long constraint; frank manifestations in accordance with natural law. 1924, Herman Melville, chapter 2, in Billy Budd:
   • 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 the crookedness and extreme narrowness of the Neckar. 1880, Mark Twain, chapter 14, in A Tramp Abroad:

Forms

Translations (52)

ary عووجية (state of being crooked) · rup strãmbãturã (state of being crooked) · ru кривизна́ (state of being crooked) · mk искривеност (state of being crooked) · te టొంకు (state of being crooked) · mt għawġ (state of being crooked) · ar عِوَج (state of being crooked) · pt tortuosidade (state of being crooked) · syc ܙܠܡܐ (state of being crooked) · fi käyryys (state of being crooked) · fi keljuus (state of being crooked) · ro strâmbare (state of being crooked) · ro gheboșare (state of being crooked) · goh krumpī (state of being crooked) · non bjúgleikr (state of being crooked) · te వంకర (state of being crooked) · ps پېچ (state of being crooked) · nb skeivhet (state of being crooked) · te వక్రత్వము (state of being crooked) · ml കോട്ടം (state of being crooked) · ga caimiléireacht (state of being crooked) · kk қисықтық (state of being crooked) · la prāvitās (state of being crooked) · te వంక (state of being crooked) · gv camlaagys (state of being crooked) · ar زَوَر (state of being crooked) · es tramposería (state of being crooked) · gv cammid (state of being crooked) · gv camlaagid (state of being crooked) · gv neuyeerid (state of being crooked) · te వంకరతనము (state of being crooked) · it tortuosità (state of being crooked) · kmr çewtî (state of being crooked) · ta வளைவு (state of being crooked) · ang wōhnes (state of being crooked) · enm wrengðe (state of being crooked) · it stortura (state of being crooked) · hi ख़म (state of being crooked) · ka სიმრუდე (state of being crooked) · xcl խոտորումն (state of being crooked) · fi kierous (state of being crooked) · hi नति (state of being crooked) · fi kieroutuneisuus (state of being crooked) · fi karsaus (state of being crooked) · my အကောက် (state of being crooked) · sa नति (state of being crooked) · hi टेढ़ापन (state of being crooked) · ta கொடுமை (state of being crooked) · ary عوج (state of being crooked) · ta கோட்டம் (state of being crooked) · it tortezza (state of being crooked) · nb skjevhet (state of being crooked)