crookedness

Noun

crookedness (countable and uncountable, plural crookednesses)

1. The state of being crooked
   • 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
   • 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