Main entry: deviousness, crookedness
Definition: the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
Main entry: crookedness
Definition: having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles
Main entry: torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness, contortion, crookedness
Definition: a tortuous and twisted shape or position
Usage: they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs; the acrobat performed incredible contortions