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crookedness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of crookedness

the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery

for sheer crookedness it would be hard to beat the used-car dealer who sold me that lemon

Synonyms of crookedness

artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookery, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness

Words Related to crookedness

equivocation, lying, mendacity, prevarication

chicane, chicanery, fraudulence, hanky-panky, jugglery, legerdemain, mountebankery, obliquity, skulduggery (or skullduggery), subterfuge, swindling, trickery, wile

falsehood, falsity, fib, untruth

hypocrisy, insincerity, sanctimoniousness, two-facedness

artfulness, caginess (also cageyness), deviousness, shrewdness

treacherousness, underhandedness, unscrupulousness

covertness, furtiveness, secrecy, shadiness, sneakiness, stealthiness

oiliness, shiftiness, slickness, slipperiness, slyness, smoothness

Near Antonyms of crookedness

candidness, candor, directness, frankness, openness, plainness, plainspokenness

honesty, probity

dependability, reliability, reliableness, solidity, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness

decency, goodness, incorruptibility, integrity, righteousness, truthfulness, uprightness, virtuousness

Antonyms of crookedness

artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity

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