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crookedness

Noun

Meaning

The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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You will continue to read stories of crookedness and corruption - of policemen who lie and steal, doctors who reap where they do not sew, politicians on the take. Don't be misled. They are news because they are the exceptions. Robert Fulghum

There's as much crookedness as you want to find. There was something Abraham Lincoln said - he'd rather trust and be disappointed than distrust and be miserable all the time. Maybe I trusted too much. John Wooden

The crookedness of the serpent is still straight enough to slide through the snake hole. Abraham Verghese

The Word of God I think of as a straight edge, which shows up our own crookedness. We can't really tell how crooked our thinking is until we line it up with the straight edge of Scripture. Elisabeth Elliot

A camel cannot see the crookedness of its neck. African Proverb

they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs Source: Internet

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