| Main Entry: | crookedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | corruption |
Synonyms: |
corruptness, deceit, deviousness, dishonesty, improbity, shadiness, underhandedness, unlawfulness |
| Main Entry: | crookedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irregularity |
Synonyms: |
asymmetry, curvity, sinuosity, sinuousness, tortuosity, tortuousness, unevenness |
| Main Entry: | contortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | distortion, mutilation |
Synonyms: |
anamorphosis, crookedness, deformation, deformity, dislocation, grimace, malformation, misproportion, misshapement, pout, twist, ugliness, unsightliness, wryness |
Antonyms: |
beauty, smoothness |
| Main Entry: | corruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
breach of trust, bribery, bribing, crime, crookedness, demoralization, exploitation, extortion, fiddling, fraud, fraudulency, graft, jobbery, malfeasance, misrepresentation, nepotism, on the take, payoff, payola, profiteering, racket, shadiness, shady deal, shuffle, skimming, squeeze*, unscrupulousness, venality |
Antonyms: |
decency, honesty, honor, truthfulness, wholesomeness |
| Main Entry: | deformity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | disfigurement, distortion |
Synonyms: |
aberration, abnormality, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, corruption, crookedness, damage, defacement, defect, depravity, evil, grossness, hideousness, impairment, injury, irregularity, knot, malconformation, malformation, misproportion, misshape, misshapenness, repulsiveness, ugliness, unattractiveness, unnaturalness, unsightliness, warp |
Antonyms: |
beauty, grace, shapeliness |
| Main Entry: | dishonesty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lying; unwillingness to tell the truth |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, sharp practice, slyness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |
Antonyms: |
fairness, frankness, honesty, openness, scrupulousness, sincerity, truthfulness |
| Main Entry: | distortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity; falsification |
Synonyms: |
BS, baloney, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, crookedness, exaggeration, intorsion, jazz, jive, lie, line, malconformation, malformation, misinterpretation, misrepresentation, misshape, misstatement, misuse, mutilation, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, tall story, torture, twist, twistedness, warp |
Antonyms: |
beauty, clarity, perfection |
| Main Entry: | asymmetry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irregularity |
Synonyms: |
crookedness, dissymmetry, imbalance, inequality, lack of balance, lopsidedness, skewness, unevenness |
| Main Entry: | deviousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
artfulness, chicanery, craftiness, crookedness, cunning, foxiness, shadiness, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness |
| Main Entry: | indirection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dishonesty |
Synonyms: |
artifice, bunk, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, craft, craftiness, criminality, crookedness, cunning, deceit, deviousness, double-dealing, duplicity, faithlessness, falsehood, falsity, flimflam, fourberie, fraud, fraudulence, graft, guile, hanky-panky, hocus-pocus, improbity, infamy, infidelity, insidiousness, mendacity, perfidiousness, perfidy, racket, rascality, shadiness, sharp practice, shiftiness, slyness, sneakiness, stealing, swindle, treachery, trickery, trickiness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness, wiliness |