crookedness

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What is inarguable is that Shepard possessed iconic beauty, whose “imperfections,” such as the crookedness of his teeth, only added to his allure.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 28, 2025

Redford derided not only crookedness, but the perversion of procedure and hard work that resulted in the privileged mounting their success on the backs of others.

From Salon • Sep. 21, 2025

The ball’s initial position, its kinetic energy, its angular momentum – and all the other factors: the friction acting on the ball, the ricketiness of the table, the crookedness of the house.

From Scientific American • Mar. 31, 2022

But if crookedness lends a castle its beauty, it does the opposite to a face — and nothing concerns Mew more than the proliferation of ugly faces, which he considers a modern epidemic.

From New York Times • Aug. 20, 2020

The quilt betrayed a crookedness in her thinking: run it up a pole as the flag of her wild country.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead