crookedness
The Chinese idiom, Xi é m ó Gu à ID à o in pinyin, means to talk about evil and devious ways, which refers to improper words and deeds or ways. It's from 20 years of witnessing.
The origin of Idioms
The 68th chapter of Wu Jianren's twenty years of witnessing the strange situation in Qing Dynasty: "look at Yugong, there is no such heresy in it, but he has actually leveled the water."
Idiom usage
As subject, object, attribute; used in writing.
crookedness
a shortsighted and good-for-nothing person - ròu yǎn fán tāi