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crookedness
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crookedness
the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
Synonyms:
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Related Words:
contortion
collapse
the act of twisting or deforming the shape of something (e.g., yourself)
related words >
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
asymmetry
,
buckle
,
crookedness
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
disproportion
,
distortion
,
gnarl
,
imbalance
,
irregularity
,
knot
,
lopsidedness
,
quirk
,
screw
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
turn
,
twist
,
unsymmetry
,
warp
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
zag
collapse
related words >
L
,
angle
,
angle off
,
apex
,
bend
,
bifurcate
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
branch
,
cant
,
chevron
,
coin
,
corner
,
crank
,
crankiness
,
crankle
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crotchet
,
deflection
,
dogleg
,
elbow
,
ell
,
flexuosity
,
fork
,
furcate
,
furcation
,
hairpin
,
hook
,
inflection
,
knee
,
nook
,
point
,
quoin
,
stagger
,
swerve
,
switchback
,
veer
,
vertex
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
imbalance
collapse
a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance"
related words >
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
asymmetry
,
buckle
,
contortion
,
contrariety
,
crookedness
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
difference
,
disequilibrium
,
disparity
,
disproportion
,
distortion
,
gnarl
,
heterogeneity
,
inadequacy
,
inequality
,
inequity
,
injustice
,
insufficiency
,
irregularity
,
knot
,
lopsidedness
,
nonuniformity
,
odds
,
overbalance
,
quirk
,
screw
,
shortcoming
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
turn
,
twist
,
unbalance
,
unevenness
,
unfair discrimination
,
unsymmetry
,
warp
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
fraudulence
collapse
the quality of being fraudulent
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
related words >
ballot-box stuffing
,
bunco
,
cardsharping
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
cozenage
,
criminality
,
crookedness
,
deviousness
,
diddle
,
diddling
,
dishonesty
,
dishonor
,
dodge
,
evasiveness
,
feloniousness
,
fishy transaction
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
fraud
,
fraudulency
,
gerrymandering
,
graft
,
grift
,
gyp
,
gyp joint
,
illicit business
,
imposition
,
imposture
,
improbity
,
indirection
,
racket
,
scam
,
shadiness
,
shiftiness
,
slipperiness
,
swindle
,
trickiness
,
unconscientiousness
,
underhandedness
,
unsavoriness
,
unscrupulousness
,
unstraightforwardness
flexure
collapse
the state of being flexed (as of a joint)
related words >
S-curve
,
angle
,
angularity
,
angularness
,
bend
,
bending
,
bow
,
bowing
,
conflexure
,
crease
,
creasing
,
crimp
,
crookedness
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
diffraction
,
diffusion
,
dispersion
,
distortion
,
dog-ear
,
double
,
doubling
,
duplicature
,
flection
,
flex
,
flounce
,
fold
,
frill
,
gather
,
geanticline
,
geosyncline
,
hairpin turn
,
hookedness
,
inflection
,
lapel
,
lappet
,
meander
,
orthogonality
,
oxbow
,
plica
,
plication
,
plicature
,
ply
,
rectangularity
,
reflection
,
refraction
,
right-angledness
,
right-angularity
,
ruche
,
ruching
,
ruffle
,
scatter
,
skewness
,
sweep
,
torsion
,
tuck
,
turn
,
turning
flection
collapse
related words >
S-curve
,
angle
,
angularity
,
angularness
,
bend
,
bending
,
bow
,
bowing
,
conflexure
,
crease
,
creasing
,
crimp
,
crookedness
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
diffraction
,
diffusion
,
dispersion
,
distortion
,
dog-ear
,
double
,
doubling
,
duplicature
,
flex
,
flexure
,
flounce
,
fold
,
frill
,
gather
,
geanticline
,
geosyncline
,
hairpin turn
,
hookedness
,
inflection
,
lapel
,
lappet
,
meander
,
orthogonality
,
oxbow
,
plica
,
plication
,
plicature
,
ply
,
rectangularity
,
reflection
,
refraction
,
right-angledness
,
right-angularity
,
ruche
,
ruching
,
ruffle
,
scatter
,
skewness
,
sweep
,
torsion
,
tuck
,
turn
,
turning
asymmetry
collapse
(mathematics) a lack of symmetry
related words >
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
antinomy
,
buckle
,
contortion
,
contrariety
,
crookedness
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
difference
,
disequilibrium
,
disparity
,
disproportion
,
disproportionateness
,
distortion
,
equivocality
,
gnarl
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
imbalance
,
inadequacy
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
inequality
,
inequity
,
injustice
,
insufficiency
,
irreconcilability
,
irregularity
,
knot
,
lopsidedness
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformity
,
nonuniformity
,
odds
,
overbalance
,
oxymoron
,
paradox
,
quirk
,
screw
,
self-contradiction
,
shortcoming
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
turn
,
twist
,
unbalance
,
unconformability
,
unconformity
,
unevenness
,
unfair discrimination
,
unorthodoxy
,
unsymmetry
,
warp
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
torsion
collapse
a twisting force
related words >
ambages
,
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
anfractuosity
,
asymmetry
,
buckle
,
circuitousness
,
circumambages
,
circumbendibus
,
circumlocution
,
circumvolution
,
contortion
,
convolution
,
crinkle
,
crinkling
,
crookedness
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
diffraction
,
diffusion
,
dispersion
,
disproportion
,
distortion
,
flection
,
flexuosity
,
flexuousness
,
flexure
,
gnarl
,
imbalance
,
intorsion
,
involution
,
irregularity
,
knot
,
lopsidedness
,
meander
,
meandering
,
quirk
,
refraction
,
rivulation
,
scatter
,
screw
,
sinuation
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
skewness
,
slinkiness
,
snakiness
,
stress
,
torque
,
tortility
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
twisting
,
undulation
,
unsymmetry
,
warp
,
wave
,
waving
,
winding
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
switchback
collapse
related words >
L
,
branch
,
cable railway
,
chevron
,
cog railway
,
crankiness
,
crookedness
,
dogleg
,
el
,
electric railway
,
elevated
,
elevated railway
,
embankment
,
feeder
,
feeder line
,
flexuosity
,
gravity-operated railway
,
hairpin
,
horse railway
,
junction
,
light railroad
,
line
,
main line
,
metro
,
monorail
,
rack railway
,
rack-and-pinion railway
,
rail
,
rail line
,
railroad
,
railway
,
roadbed
,
roadway
,
sidetrack
,
siding
,
street railway
,
streetcar line
,
subway
,
terminal
,
terminus
,
track
,
tram
,
tramline
,
trestle
,
trolley line
,
trunk
,
trunk line
,
tube
,
turnout
,
underground
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
hairpin
collapse
a double pronged pin used to hold women's hair in place
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
bend
,
bendy
,
bias
,
branching off
,
chevron
,
chevronwise
,
chevrony
,
circuitousness
,
corner
,
crankiness
,
crankled
,
crook
,
crooked
,
crookedness
,
curve
,
curvy
,
declination
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
discursion
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
flexuosity
,
flexuous
,
indirection
,
obliquity
,
pererration
,
rambling
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
slant
,
staggered
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
switchback
,
tack
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
twisty
,
variation
,
veer
,
wandering
,
warp
,
yaw
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
,
zigzaggy
,
zigzagways
buckle
collapse
fastener that fastens together two ends of a belt or strap; often has loose prong
fold or collapse; "His knees buckled"
fasten with a buckle or buckles
related words >
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
articulate
,
asymmetry
,
batten
,
batten down
,
bend
,
bolt
,
bulge
,
butt
,
button
,
catch
,
cave in
,
clasp
,
cleat
,
clip
,
collapse
,
contort
,
contortion
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crumple
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
disproportion
,
distort
,
distortion
,
dovetail
,
fastener
,
fastening
,
gnarl
,
hasp
,
hinge
,
hitch
,
hook
,
imbalance
,
irregularity
,
jam
,
joint
,
knot
,
latch
,
lock
,
lopsidedness
,
miter
,
mortise
,
nail
,
peg
,
pin
,
quirk
,
rabbet
,
rivet
,
scarf
,
screw
,
sew
,
skewer
,
snap
,
spring
,
staple
,
stick
,
stitch
,
tack
,
toggle
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
turn
,
turn awry
,
twist
,
unsymmetry
,
warp
,
wedge
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
,
writhe
,
zipper
vaulting
collapse
(architecture) a vaulted structure; "arches and vaulting"
related words >
aduncity
,
apse
,
aquilinity
,
arcade
,
arcature
,
arch
,
arched roof
,
arching
,
archway
,
arcuation
,
aspiring
,
bouncing
,
bounding
,
camber
,
capering
,
ceilinged roof
,
circularity
,
concameration
,
concavity
,
concha
,
convexity
,
convolution
,
cove
,
crookedness
,
cupola
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
dome
,
emulous
,
enthusiastic
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
geodesic dome
,
hookedness
,
hopping
,
hurdle race
,
hurdling
,
igloo
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
jumping
,
keystone
,
leaping
,
ogive
,
pole vaulting
,
prancing
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
saltation
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
skewback
,
skipping
,
span
,
springing
,
steeplechase
,
the hurdles
,
timber topping
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
vault
,
voussoir
dogleg
collapse
a golf hole with a sharp angle in the fairway
angle that resembles the hind leg of a dog
related words >
L
,
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
angle
,
apex
,
bend
,
bias
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
branching off
,
cant
,
chevron
,
circuitousness
,
coin
,
corner
,
crank
,
crankiness
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crotchet
,
curve
,
declination
,
deflection
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
discursion
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
double
,
drift
,
drifting
,
elbow
,
ell
,
errantry
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
flexuosity
,
fork
,
furcation
,
hairpin
,
hook
,
indirection
,
inflection
,
knee
,
nook
,
obliquity
,
pererration
,
point
,
quoin
,
rambling
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
slant
,
straying
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
switchback
,
tack
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
variation
,
veer
,
vertex
,
wandering
,
warp
,
yaw
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
convexity
collapse
the property possessed by a convex shape
related words >
aduncity
,
aquilinity
,
arching
,
arcuation
,
belly
,
boss
,
bump
,
circularity
,
colophon
,
concameration
,
concavity
,
convolution
,
crookedness
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
cylindricality
,
dactylogram
,
dactylograph
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
dent
,
dint
,
embossment
,
excrescence
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fingerprint
,
footmark
,
footprint
,
footstep
,
fossil footprint
,
globosity
,
globularity
,
hookedness
,
ichnite
,
ichnolite
,
impress
,
impression
,
imprint
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
indent
,
indentation
,
indention
,
lump
,
orbicularity
,
pad
,
paw print
,
pawmark
,
pimple
,
print
,
pug
,
pugmark
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
rotundness
,
roundness
,
seal
,
sigil
,
signet
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
sphericality
,
sphericalness
,
sphericity
,
spheroidicity
,
spheroidity
,
stamp
,
step
,
stud
,
thumbmark
,
thumbprint
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
vaulting
,
vestige
dishonesty
collapse
lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
the quality of being dishonest
related words >
Machiavellianism
,
ambidexterity
,
artifice
,
bad faith
,
ballot-box stuffing
,
bunco
,
cardsharping
,
cheat
,
cheating
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
cozenage
,
credibility gap
,
criminality
,
crookedness
,
cunning
,
deceitfulness
,
deviousness
,
diddle
,
diddling
,
dishonor
,
dodge
,
double-dealing
,
doubleness
,
doubleness of heart
,
duplicity
,
evasiveness
,
faithlessness
,
falseheartedness
,
falsehood
,
falseness
,
feloniousness
,
fibbery
,
fibbing
,
fishy transaction
,
flam
,
flimflam
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
gerrymandering
,
graft
,
grift
,
gyp
,
gyp joint
,
hanky-panky
,
illicit business
,
imposition
,
imposture
,
improbity
,
indirection
,
low cunning
,
lying
,
mendaciousness
,
mendacity
,
mythomania
,
pseudology
,
racket
,
scam
,
shadiness
,
sharp practice
,
shiftiness
,
slipperiness
,
swindle
,
treachery
,
trickery
,
trickiness
,
truthlessness
,
two-facedness
,
unconscientiousness
,
underhandedness
,
unsavoriness
,
unscrupulousness
,
unstraightforwardness
,
untruthfulness
,
unveraciousness
,
wile
disproportion
collapse
lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
related words >
ambiguity
,
ambivalence
,
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
antinomy
,
asymmetry
,
buckle
,
contortion
,
contrariety
,
crookedness
,
derangement
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
difference
,
disarrangement
,
disarray
,
disarticulation
,
discomfiture
,
discomposure
,
disconcertedness
,
disequilibrium
,
disharmony
,
dishevelment
,
disintegration
,
disjunction
,
disorder
,
disorderliness
,
disorganization
,
disparity
,
disproportionateness
,
disruption
,
dissimilarity
,
distortion
,
disturbance
,
entropy
,
equivocality
,
gnarl
,
haphazardness
,
heresy
,
heterodoxy
,
heterogeneity
,
imbalance
,
imparity
,
inadequacy
,
incoherence
,
incommensurability
,
incompatibility
,
incongruity
,
inconsistency
,
inconsonance
,
indiscriminateness
,
inequality
,
inequity
,
inharmonious harmony
,
injustice
,
insufficiency
,
irreconcilability
,
irregularity
,
knot
,
lopsidedness
,
most admired disorder
,
nonconformability
,
nonconformity
,
nonsymmetry
,
nonuniformity
,
odds
,
overbalance
,
oxymoron
,
paradox
,
perturbation
,
promiscuity
,
promiscuousness
,
quirk
,
randomness
,
screw
,
self-contradiction
,
shortcoming
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
turbulence
,
turn
,
twist
,
unbalance
,
unconformability
,
unconformity
,
unevenness
,
unfair discrimination
,
unorthodoxy
,
unsymmetry
,
ununiformity
,
upset
,
warp
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
circularity
collapse
the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure
related words >
aduncity
,
apparent soundness
,
aquilinity
,
arching
,
arcuation
,
casuistry
,
circling
,
circuition
,
circuitousness
,
circuitry
,
circulation
,
circumambience
,
circumambiency
,
circumambulation
,
circumflexion
,
circumlocution
,
circummigration
,
circumnavigation
,
concameration
,
concavity
,
convexity
,
convolution
,
crookedness
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
digression
,
disingenuousness
,
distortion
,
equivocalness
,
equivocation
,
evasive reasoning
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fallaciousness
,
fallacy
,
gyre
,
gyring
,
hookedness
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
indirection
,
insincerity
,
jesuitism
,
jesuitry
,
meandering
,
misapplication
,
mystification
,
obfuscation
,
obscurantism
,
orbit
,
orbiting
,
oversubtlety
,
perversion
,
philosophism
,
plausibility
,
plausibleness
,
rationalization
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
roundaboutness
,
rounding
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
sophism
,
sophistical reasoning
,
sophistication
,
sophistry
,
special pleading
,
speciosity
,
specious reasoning
,
speciousness
,
spiral
,
spiraling
,
subtlety
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
turn
,
turning
,
vaulting
,
vicious circle
,
vicious reasoning
,
wheeling
gnarl
collapse
twist into a state of deformity; "The wind has gnarled this old tree"
related words >
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
asymmetry
,
bend
,
bilge
,
blain
,
bleb
,
blister
,
blob
,
boss
,
bow
,
bubble
,
buckle
,
bulb
,
bulge
,
bulla
,
bump
,
bunch
,
burl
,
button
,
cahot
,
chine
,
clump
,
coarsen
,
color
,
condyle
,
contort
,
contortion
,
convex
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crumple
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
disproportion
,
distort
,
distortion
,
dowel
,
ear
,
flange
,
flap
,
flush
,
frown
,
gall
,
glare
,
glower
,
granulate
,
growl
,
grumble
,
handle
,
hill
,
hiss
,
horripilate
,
hump
,
hunch
,
imbalance
,
irregularity
,
jog
,
joggle
,
knob
,
knot
,
knur
,
knurl
,
lip
,
look daggers
,
loop
,
lopsidedness
,
lower
,
lump
,
mantle
,
mole
,
mountain
,
nevus
,
nub
,
nubbin
,
nubble
,
papilloma
,
peg
,
pimple
,
quirk
,
redden
,
rib
,
ridge
,
ring
,
rough
,
rough up
,
roughen
,
scowl
,
screw
,
shoulder
,
snap
,
snarl
,
spine
,
spit
,
spring
,
stud
,
style
,
tab
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
tubercle
,
tubercule
,
turn
,
turn awry
,
twist
,
unsymmetry
,
verruca
,
vesicle
,
wale
,
warp
,
wart
,
welt
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
,
writhe
wrest
collapse
obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"
related words >
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
arrogate
,
asymmetry
,
avulse
,
badger
,
bend
,
blackmail
,
buckle
,
claim
,
color
,
confiscate
,
confuse
,
contort
,
contortion
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crumple
,
cut out
,
demand
,
deracinate
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
dig out
,
dig up
,
disentangle
,
disproportion
,
distort
,
distortion
,
draw
,
draw out
,
dredge
,
dredge up
,
elicit
,
eradicate
,
evolve
,
evulse
,
exact
,
exaction
,
excavate
,
excise
,
exsect
,
extort
,
extortion
,
extract
,
extricate
,
force from
,
garble
,
get out
,
gnarl
,
gouge
,
gouge out
,
grub up
,
imbalance
,
irregularity
,
knot
,
levy blackmail
,
lopsidedness
,
mine
,
miscolor
,
pervert
,
pick out
,
pinch
,
pluck out
,
pluck up
,
pry loose from
,
pull
,
pull out
,
pull up
,
quarry
,
quirk
,
rake out
,
remove
,
rend
,
rend from
,
rending
,
rip
,
rip from
,
rip out
,
ripping
,
root out
,
root up
,
screw
,
shake down
,
snatch from
,
spring
,
squeeze
,
take out
,
tear from
,
tear out
,
tearing
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
turn
,
turn awry
,
twist
,
unearth
,
unravel
,
unsymmetry
,
uproot
,
usurp
,
warp
,
weed out
,
withdraw
,
wrench
,
wrench from
,
wrenching
,
wrest out
,
wresting
,
wring
,
wring from
,
wringing
,
writhe
,
wry
concavity
collapse
the property possessed by a concave shape
related words >
aduncity
,
alveolation
,
alveolus
,
antrum
,
aquilinity
,
arching
,
arcuation
,
armpit
,
basin
,
boss
,
bowl
,
bump
,
cavity
,
circularity
,
colophon
,
concameration
,
concave
,
convexity
,
convolution
,
crater
,
crookedness
,
crypt
,
cup
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
dactylogram
,
dactylograph
,
de-escalation
,
debasement
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
degradation
,
demotion
,
dent
,
depression
,
descent
,
detrusion
,
diminution
,
dint
,
dip
,
ducking
,
embossment
,
excrescence
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fingerprint
,
fold
,
follicle
,
footmark
,
footprint
,
footstep
,
fossil footprint
,
funnel chest
,
hauling down
,
hole
,
hollow
,
hollow shell
,
hollowness
,
hookedness
,
ichnite
,
ichnolite
,
impress
,
impression
,
imprint
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
indent
,
indentation
,
indention
,
lacuna
,
lowering
,
lump
,
pad
,
paw print
,
pawmark
,
pimple
,
pit
,
pocket
,
print
,
pug
,
pugmark
,
punch bowl
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
reduction
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
sag
,
scoop
,
seal
,
shell
,
sigil
,
signet
,
sink
,
sinkage
,
sinkhole
,
sinking
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
sinus
,
socket
,
stamp
,
step
,
stud
,
submergence
,
thrusting under
,
thumbmark
,
thumbprint
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
trough
,
vaulting
,
vestige
,
vug
quirk
collapse
a narrow groove beside a beading
twist or curve abruptly; "She quirked her head in a peculiar way"
related words >
aberration
,
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
aroma
,
asymmetry
,
attribute
,
badge
,
boutade
,
brainstorm
,
brand
,
buckle
,
cachet
,
capriccio
,
caprice
,
cast
,
cavil
,
character
,
characteristic
,
conceit
,
configuration
,
contortion
,
crank
,
craze
,
crazy idea
,
crookedness
,
crotchet
,
cut
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
differentia
,
differential
,
disproportion
,
distinctive feature
,
distortion
,
dodge
,
earmark
,
eccentricity
,
fad
,
fancy
,
fantastic notion
,
fantasy
,
feature
,
figure
,
flavor
,
flimflam
,
fool notion
,
freak
,
freakish inspiration
,
gnarl
,
gust
,
habit
,
hallmark
,
harebrained idea
,
humor
,
idiocrasy
,
idiosyncrasy
,
imbalance
,
impress
,
impression
,
index
,
individualism
,
irregularity
,
jesuitism
,
keynote
,
kink
,
knot
,
lineaments
,
lopsidedness
,
maggot
,
mannerism
,
mark
,
marking
,
megrim
,
minauderie
,
mold
,
nature
,
notion
,
oddity
,
odor
,
particularity
,
passing fancy
,
peculiar trait
,
peculiarity
,
property
,
quality
,
quibble
,
quiddity
,
quillet
,
quip
,
quodlibet
,
savor
,
screw
,
seal
,
shape
,
shuffle
,
singularity
,
smack
,
specialty
,
stamp
,
taint
,
tang
,
taste
,
token
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
toy
,
trademark
,
trait
,
trick
,
trick of behavior
,
turn
,
twist
,
unsymmetry
,
vagary
,
warp
,
whim
,
whim-wham
,
whimsy
,
wrench
,
wrest
,
wring
indirection
collapse
deceitful action that is not straightforward; "he could see through the indirections of diplomats"
indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"
related words >
aberrancy
,
aberration
,
ambages
,
artfulness
,
bend
,
bias
,
branching off
,
cheat
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
circling
,
circuition
,
circuitousness
,
circuitry
,
circularity
,
circulation
,
circumambience
,
circumambiency
,
circumambulation
,
circumflexion
,
circumlocution
,
circummigration
,
circumnavigation
,
corner
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
craft
,
criminality
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crosswiseness
,
cunning
,
curve
,
deceit
,
deceitfulness
,
declination
,
deflection
,
deflexure
,
departure
,
detour
,
deviance
,
deviancy
,
deviation
,
deviousness
,
diagonality
,
digression
,
dirt
,
discursion
,
dishonesty
,
dishonor
,
divagation
,
divarication
,
divergence
,
diversion
,
dogleg
,
double
,
double-dealing
,
drift
,
drifting
,
dupery
,
duplicity
,
errantry
,
evasiveness
,
excursion
,
excursus
,
exorbitation
,
falseheartedness
,
falseness
,
feloniousness
,
fraud
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
furtiveness
,
guile
,
gyre
,
gyring
,
hairpin
,
hanky-panky
,
hypocrisy
,
improbity
,
indirectness
,
insidiousness
,
meandering
,
nonconformity
,
obliqueness
,
obliquity
,
orbit
,
orbiting
,
pererration
,
periphrase
,
periphrasis
,
rambling
,
roundaboutness
,
rounding
,
shadiness
,
sheer
,
shift
,
shiftiness
,
shifting
,
shifting course
,
shifting path
,
skew
,
skewness
,
slant
,
slipperiness
,
sneak attack
,
sneakiness
,
spiral
,
spiraling
,
squint
,
straying
,
surreptitiousness
,
sweep
,
swerve
,
swerving
,
swinging
,
tack
,
transverseness
,
treacherousness
,
trickiness
,
turn
,
turning
,
twist
,
unconscientiousness
,
underhandedness
,
unsavoriness
,
unscrupulousness
,
unstraightforwardness
,
vagary
,
variation
,
veer
,
wandering
,
warp
,
wheeling
,
yaw
,
zigzag
wring
collapse
twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"
twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"
related words >
afflict
,
agonize
,
ail
,
anamorphism
,
anamorphosis
,
asymmetry
,
badger
,
bend
,
bite
,
blackmail
,
bloody
,
buckle
,
burn
,
chafe
,
claim
,
claw
,
concentrate
,
contort
,
contortion
,
convulse
,
corkscrew
,
crinkle
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
crucify
,
crumple
,
cut
,
decoct
,
demand
,
detorsion
,
deviation
,
disproportion
,
distill
,
distort
,
distortion
,
distress
,
essentialize
,
exact
,
exaction
,
excruciate
,
express
,
extort
,
extortion
,
fester
,
force from
,
fret
,
gall
,
give pain
,
gnarl
,
gnaw
,
gouge
,
grate
,
grind
,
gripe
,
harrow
,
hurt
,
imbalance
,
impale
,
inflame
,
inflict pain
,
infuse
,
intort
,
irregularity
,
irritate
,
kill by inches
,
knot
,
lacerate
,
lancinate
,
levy blackmail
,
lopsidedness
,
macerate
,
martyr
,
martyrize
,
meander
,
melt down
,
nip
,
pain
,
pierce
,
pinch
,
press
,
press out
,
prick
,
prolong the agony
,
pry loose from
,
punish
,
put to torture
,
quirk
,
rack
,
rankle
,
rasp
,
refine
,
rend
,
rend from
,
render
,
rending
,
rip
,
rip from
,
ripping
,
rub
,
savage
,
scallop
,
scarify
,
screw
,
serpentine
,
shake down
,
slink
,
snake
,
snatch from
,
soak
,
spring
,
squeeze
,
stab
,
steep
,
sting
,
swirl
,
tear from
,
tearing
,
torment
,
torsion
,
tortuosity
,
torture
,
try
,
turn
,
turn awry
,
tweak
,
twine
,
twirl
,
twist
,
twist and turn
,
unsymmetry
,
warp
,
whirl
,
whorl
,
wind
,
worm
,
wound
,
wrench
,
wrench from
,
wrenching
,
wrest
,
wresting
,
wring from
,
wring out
,
wringing
,
writhe
,
wry
dishonor
collapse
lacking honor or integrity
a state of shame or disgrace; "he was resigned to a life of dishonor"
refuse to accept; "dishonor checks and drafts"
bring shame or dishonor upon; "he dishonored his family by committing a serious crime"
related words >
abase
,
abuse
,
affront
,
aspersion
,
bad character
,
bad debt
,
bad name
,
bad odor
,
bad report
,
bad reputation
,
bad repute
,
belittlement
,
black mark
,
blemish
,
blot
,
bring into discredit
,
bring low
,
bring shame upon
,
call names
,
cast reproach upon
,
commit sacrilege
,
corruptedness
,
corruption
,
corruptness
,
criminality
,
crookedness
,
debase
,
debauch
,
defamation
,
default
,
defection
,
defile
,
deflower
,
defrock
,
degrade
,
delinquence
,
delinquency
,
denigration
,
deplume
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
desecrate
,
detraction
,
deviousness
,
disallow
,
disapprobation
,
discourtesy
,
discredit
,
disesteem
,
disfavor
,
disgrace
,
dishonesty
,
dishonoring
,
disoblige
,
disparagement
,
displume
,
disrepute
,
disrespect
,
disrespectfulness
,
dump on
,
evasiveness
,
evil repute
,
feloniousness
,
fleer at
,
flout
,
fraudulence
,
fraudulency
,
gibe at
,
give offense to
,
humble
,
humiliate
,
hurl a brickbat
,
ignominy
,
ill fame
,
ill repute
,
ill-favor
,
improbity
,
impudence
,
impute shame to
,
indignity
,
indirection
,
infamy
,
injure
,
insolence
,
insult
,
irreverence
,
jeer at
,
jibe at
,
lack of respect
,
levant
,
libel
,
mock
,
mortify
,
nondischarge of debts
,
nonpayment
,
nonremittal
,
not pay
,
obloquy
,
odium
,
offend
,
opprobrium
,
outrage
,
pillory
,
poor reputation
,
profane
,
protest
,
protested bill
,
public dishonor
,
put down
,
put to shame
,
rape
,
ravish
,
reflect discredit upon
,
refuse to pay
,
reproach
,
repudiate
,
repudiation
,
ridicule
,
scoff at
,
seduce
,
shadiness
,
shady reputation
,
shame
,
shiftiness
,
slander
,
slight
,
slipperiness
,
slur
,
smear
,
smirch
,
stop payment
,
taunt
,
treat with indignity
,
trickiness
,
uncollectible
,
unconscientiousness
,
underhandedness
,
unfrock
,
unsavoriness
,
unsavory reputation
,
unscrupulousness
,
unstraightforwardness
,
violate
,
vitiate
,
welsh
chevron
collapse
an inverted V-shaped charge
V-shaped sleeve badge indicating military rank and service; "they earned their stripes in Kuwait"
related words >
Hershey bar
,
L
,
achievement
,
alerion
,
angle
,
animal charge
,
annulet
,
apex
,
argent
,
armorial bearings
,
armory
,
arms
,
aviation badge
,
azure
,
badge
,
bandeau
,
bar
,
bar sinister
,
baton
,
bearings
,
bend
,
bend sinister
,
bifurcation
,
bight
,
billet
,
blazon
,
blazonry
,
bordure
,
broad arrow
,
cadency mark
,
cant
,
canton
,
chaplet
,
charge
,
chicken
,
chief
,
coat of arms
,
cockatrice
,
coin
,
corner
,
coronet
,
crank
,
crankiness
,
crescent
,
crest
,
crook
,
crookedness
,
cross
,
cross moline
,
crotchet
,
crown
,
deflection
,
device
,
difference
,
differencing
,
dogleg
,
eagle
,
elbow
,
ell
,
epaulet
,
ermine
,
ermines
,
erminites
,
erminois
,
escutcheon
,
falcon
,
fess
,
fess point
,
field
,
file
,
flanch
,
fleur-de-lis
,
flexuosity
,
fork
,
fret
,
fur
,
furcation
,
fusil
,
garland
,
griffin
,
gules
,
gyron
,
hairpin
,
hash mark
,
hatchment
,
helmet
,
heraldic device
,
honor point
,
hook
,
impalement
,
impaling
,
inescutcheon
,
inflection
,
insignia of branch
,
knee
,
label
,
lion
,
lozenge
,
mantling
,
marshaling
,
martlet
,
mascle
,
metal
,
motto
,
mullet
,
nombril point
,
nook
,
oak leaf
,
octofoil
,
or
,
ordinary
,
organization insignia
,
orle
,
overseas bar
,
pale
,
paly
,
parachute badge
,
patch
,
pean
,
pheon
,
pip
,
point
,
purpure
,
quarter
,
quartering
,
quoin
,
rose
,
sable
,
saltire
,
scutcheon
,
service stripe
,
shield
,
shoulder patch
,
shoulder sleeve insignia
,
spread eagle
,
star
,
stripe
,
submarine badge
,
subordinary
,
swerve
,
switchback
,
tenne
,
tincture
,
torse
,
tressure
,
unicorn
,
vair
,
veer
,
vert
,
vertex
,
wreath
,
yale
,
zag
,
zig
,
zigzag
,
zigzaggery
convolution
collapse
the action of coiling or twisting or winding together
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Barnumism
,
aduncity
,
affectation
,
aquilinity
,
arachnoid
,
arbor vitae
,
arching
,
archipallium
,
arcuation
,
bedizenment
,
between brain
,
big talk
,
brain stem
,
cerebellar hemispheres
,
cerebellum
,
cerebral cortex
,
cerebrospinal fluid
,
cerebrum
,
circularity
,
complexity
,
complexness
,
complication
,
concameration
,
concavity
,
convexity
,
corpus callosum
,
corpus striatum
,
crabbedness
,
crookedness
,
curvation
,
curvature
,
curving
,
curvity
,
decurvation
,
decurvature
,
diencephalon
,
dura mater
,
endbrain
,
entanglement
,
excurvation
,
excurvature
,
fissure
,
flashiness
,
flatulence
,
flatulency
,
folia
,
forebrain
,
fornix
,
frontal lobe
,
fulsomeness
,
garishness
,
gaudiness
,
glial cells
,
globus pallidus
,
grandiloquence
,
grandioseness
,
grandiosity
,
gray matter
,
gyrus
,
high-flown diction
,
hindbrain
,
hippocampus
,
hookedness
,
hypothalamus
,
incurvation
,
incurvature
,
incurvity
,
inflatedness
,
inflation
,
intricacy
,
intricateness
,
involution
,
involvement
,
lenticular nucleus
,
lexiphanicism
,
limbic lobe
,
little brain
,
lobe
,
loftiness
,
luridness
,
magniloquence
,
mantle
,
medulla oblongata
,
meninges
,
mere rhetoric
,
meretriciousness
,
mesencephalon
,
metencephalon
,
midbrain
,
myelencephalon
,
neopallium
,
occipital lobe
,
optic chiasm
,
orotundity
,
ostentation
,
ostentatious complexity
,
pallium
,
parietal lobe
,
perplexity
,
pia mater
,
pineal body
,
pituitary body
,
platitudinous ponderosity
,
polysyllabic profundity
,
pomposity
,
pompous prolixity
,
pompousness
,
pons
,
pontification
,
pretension
,
pretentiousness
,
prose run mad
,
ramification
,
recurvation
,
recurvature
,
recurvity
,
reticular system
,
rhetoric
,
rhetoricalness
,
rhombencephalon
,
rondure
,
rotundity
,
sensationalism
,
sententiousness
,
showiness
,
sinuosity
,
sinuousness
,
stiltedness
,
subthalamus
,
subtlety
,
swelling utterance
,
swollen phrase
,
swollenness
,
tall talk
,
tanglement
,
technicality
,
telencephalon
,
temporal lobe
,
thalamus
,
tortuosity
,
tortuousness
,
tumidity
,
tumidness
,
turgescence
,
turgidity
,
vaulting
,
ventricle
,
vermis
,
white matter
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