the quality or condition of not being straight; crookedness.

a pretending, make-believe; pretence; hypocrisy.

a dishonest man; a crook; a fraud; a deceiver.

name of a sage, known popularly as C āṇakya, the author of the treatise 'Arthaśastra' on civil polity.

a room for cleansing (usu. the body); a bathroom.

a man who cuts, chops off wood (with an axe).