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Crooked   /krˈʊkəd/   Listen
Crooked

adjective
1.
Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned.  "Crooked teeth"
2.
Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive.  Synonym: corrupt.
3.
Irregular in shape or outline.  Synonym: asymmetrical.  "A dress with a crooked hemline"
4.
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect.  Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping.


Crook

verb
(past & past part. crooked; pres. part. crooking)
1.
Bend or cause to bend.  Synonym: curve.  "The road curved sharply"



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"Crooked" Quotes from Famous Books



... at Christmas you yourself seem sensible of: you say your sister will laugh; and so indeed she well may! The Latins have an expression for a contemptuous kind of laughter, 'naso contemnere adunco'; that is, to laugh with a crooked nose. She may laugh at you in the manner of the ancients if she thinks fit. But now I come to the most extraordinary of all extraordinary propositions, which is, to take your and your sister's advice ...
— Oliver Goldsmith • Washington Irving
... I suppose," she remarked. "The crooked ways attract, you know, when one has been brought up ...
— The Tempting of Tavernake • E. Phillips Oppenheim
... on the sea; his shadow in the moon Ploughed up a furrow with an iron staff In the hard sand, and thrust a long lean chin Outward and downward, and thrust out a foot, And leaned to follow after. As he saw His crooked knee go forward under him And after it the long straight iron staff, "The staff," he thought, "is Paolo: like that staff And like that knee we walked between the sun, And her unmerciful eyes"; and ...
— A Cluster of Grapes - A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry • Various
... 1756. La Gallisonniere, our old Canadian friend, a crooked little man of great faculty, who has been busy in the dockyards lately, weighs anchor from Toulon; "12 sail of the line, 5 frigates and above 100 transport-ships;" with the grand Invasion-of-England Armament on board: 16,000 picked troops, complete ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. XVII. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--The Seven-Years War: First Campaign--1756-1757. • Thomas Carlyle
... Lothrop—if I can. A Puritan is a person so much better than the ordinary run of mortals, that she is not afraid to let Nature and Solitude speak to her—dares to look roses in the face, in fact;—has no charity for the crooked ways of the world or for the people entangled in them; a person who can bear truth and has no need of falsehood, and who is thereby lifted above the multitudes of this world's population, and stands as ...
— Nobody • Susan Warner


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