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  • noun The quality of being twisted.

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twisted +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Not all the humor and twistedness of this moment is captured and Rattigan is no Joe Orton, who could have had a blast with the set-up.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Frank Langella Mans Up For Revival "Man And Boy" Michael Giltz 2011

  • I put together a little "video" to add to the twistedness.

    "My Baby's Wrapped in Plastic" marshallpayne1 2010

  • Not all the humor and twistedness of this moment is captured and Rattigan is no Joe Orton, who could have had a blast with the set-up.

    Michael Giltz: Theater: Frank Langella Mans Up For Revival "Man And Boy" Michael Giltz 2011

  • I personally appreciated the film immensely for the same reason people hated it: for the rawness of its psychological twistedness.

    Karin Badt: Cannes Buzz: Which Film Will Win? 2009

  • Set in the present with the back story coming out bit by bit, the horror of the story, the extreme twistedness of the characters and the inhumane attitudes toward such a woman as Esme, drilled into my heart.

    Reader reviews of The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox by Maggie O'Farrell. 2007

  • Lots of beautiful things, lots of twistedness… I do love me some HansChristian Andersen!

    Book Chick City Book Chick City 2009

  • As Topher learns what has been done to Sierra and then argues with Adele over her fate, and then as he turns that fate and becomes something of a hero a twisted hero no doubt, but heroic all the more for his twistedness, Topher becomes human, something of which we have only seen glimpses in the past.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Fred Perry 2009

  • As Topher learns what has been done to Sierra and then argues with Adele over her fate, and then as he turns that fate and becomes something of a hero a twisted hero no doubt, but heroic all the more for his twistedness, Topher becomes human, something of which we have only seen glimpses in the past.

    Dollhouse: "Becoming" Fred Perry 2009

  • Although it's the nature of politics for politicians to manipulate the truth as well as the voters, McCain's skullduggery -- though marvelous in its twistedness -- will deliver a bomb after the election.

    Beth Arnold: Women of the World Unite! 2008

  • You have to look at the way "hunchbacks" are used as symbols of twistedness, * crookedness*, in Victorian novels in the same terms.

    Wisdom, Justice And Mercy Hal Duncan 2006

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