figurative. Deviation from rectitude; moral obliquity; perversity, etc.: see crooked, adj. 3.

(in quot. 1586 fig. tortuous character, as opp. to ‘straightforwardness’).

Want of straightforwardness in action; an act, or practice, which is not straightforward and honest; deceit; malpractice.

Indirectness in action, conduct, speech, etc.; a way or method that is not direct or straightforward.

figurative. Deviation from rectitude or uprightness as regards morals or behaviour; perverseness, crookedness. Obsolete.

figurative. Mental or moral crookedness: cf. tortuous, adj. 2.

The quality of being indirect; want of directness or straightforwardness.

(un-, prefix1 affix 6.)

(un-, prefix1 affix 6.)

the quality or condition of being tortuous, tortuosity.

The quality of being oblique or slanting, obliquity; indirectness.