Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CROOK'ED-NESS
CROOK'ED-NESS, n.
- A winding, bending or turning; curvity; curvature; inflection. – Hooker.
- Perverseness; untowardness; deviation from rectitude; iniquity; obliquity of conduct.
- Deformity of a gibbous body. – Johnson. Taylor.
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