Definition of Crookednesses

1. crookedness [n] - See also: crookedness

Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookednesses

croodles
croodling
crook
crook and nanny
crookback
crookbacked
crookbacks
crookbill
crookbills
crooked
crooked-stemmed aster
crookeder
crookedest
crookedly
crookedness
crookednesses
crooken
crookened
crookening
crookens
crooker
crookeries
crookery
crookesite
crookest
crooking
crookneck
crookneck squash
crooknecks
crooks

Literary usage of Crookednesses

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Contemporary Review (1873)
"And beyond the encouragement of fraud, lying, malice, cruelty, murder, contempt of law, and the other conspicuous crookednesses named, multitudinous minor ..."

2. The Ring and the Book by Robert Browning (1898)
"Would I have tried these crookednesses, say, Willing and able to effect the straight ?'' " Ay, would you ! " — one may hear the priest retort, ..."

3. The Popular Science Monthly (1873)
"And beyond the encouragement of fraud, lying, malice, cruelty, murder, contempt of law, and the other conspicuous crookednesses named, multitudinous minor ..."

4. History of Woman Suffrage by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan Brownell Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage (1886)
"In every instance, so far as we can ascertain, these crookednesses have been straightened out, the finances put upon a surer basis, hundreds, ..."

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