Thesaurus / crookedness
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When normal life is upset by abnormal conditions the cauldron of crookedness bubbles over with a thousand and one conspiracies.
EASTERN NIGHTS - AND FLIGHTSALAN BOTTEven to-day the masses of the Negroes see all too clearly the anomalies of their position and the moral crookedness of yours.
THE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY, 1995, MEMORIAL ISSUEVARIOUSThat sort of crookedness may win for a little while, but it's bound to lose out in the long run.
MOTOR MATT'S PERIL, OR, CAST AWAY IN THE BAHAMASSTANLEY R. MATTHEWSThey will probably try some crookedness, for they must all be in it together.
THE BLUE GRASS SEMINARY GIRLS' VACATION ADVENTURESCAROLYN JUDSON BURNETTBut, Mac, you've been hammering at me about the crookedness of journalism in Worthington from the first.
THE CLARIONSAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMSHe had fully made up his mind that if the men had been guilty of crookedness they would have to get off the team.
BASEBALL JOE, CAPTAIN OF THE TEAMLESTER CHADWICKNothing wrong when sane women with the vote might rid politics of partisanship, greed, crookedness?
THE CALL OF THE CANYONZANE GREYFer all his crookedness, he's a bether man thin th' boss, an' he'll not be layin' that lickin' up ag'in yez.
THE PROMISEJAMES B. HENDRYXHis trade was the applied trade of crookedness; his pursuit the pursuit of other folks' cash resources.
SUNDRY ACCOUNTSIRVIN S. COBBThe only objection I have to the prize ring is the crookedness that has attended its commercial development.
THEODORE ROOSEVELTTHEODORE ROOSEVELTWORDS RELATED TO CROOKEDNESS
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- 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
- underhandedness
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- artifice
- bunk
- cheating
- chicane
- chicanery
- corruption
- craft
- craftiness
- criminality
- crookedness
- cunning
- deceit
- deviousness
- dishonesty
- 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
- unscrupulousness
- wiliness
- bestiality
- breach of trust
- bribery
- bribing
- crime
- crookedness
- demoralization
- depravity
- exploitation
- extortion
- fiddling
- flagitiousness
- fraud
- fraudulency
- graft
- immorality
- jobbery
- malfeasance
- misrepresentation
- nepotism
- on the take
- payoff
- payola
- perversion
- profiteering
- racket
- shadiness
- shady deal
- shuffle
- skimming
- squeeze
- turpitude
- unscrupulousness
- venality
- vice
- villainy
- wickedness
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