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Crooked

Crooked Meaning & Definition
Crooked Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Crooked?

[adj] having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
[adj] irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"
[adj] having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
[adj] not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

Synonyms | Synonyms for Crooked: akimbo(ip) | anfractuous | aquiline | askew | asymmetrical | awry(p) | bending | bent | cockeyed | contorted | corrupt | deflective | dishonest | distorted | geniculate | gnarled | gnarly | hooked | hunched | irregular | knobbed | knotted | knotty | lopsided | malposed | reflexed | refractive | round-backed | round-shouldered | skew-whiff | sneaky | squiggly | stooped | stooping | tortuous | twisted | twisting | twisty | underhand | underhanded | unerect | unscrupulous | warped | windblown | winding | wonky | writhed | writhen | wry | zigzag

Related Terms | Find terms related to Crooked: agee | agee-jawed | akimbo | ambidextrous | amoral | anamorphous | angular | aquiline | aquiline-nosed | artful | askance | askant | askew | askewgee | asquint | asymmetric | awry | beaked | beak-nosed | beak-shaped | bending | bendy | bent | billed | bill-like | bill-shaped | bowed | catawampous | catawamptious | chevronwise | chevrony | circuitous | clawlike | cockeyed | conscienceless | contorted | cornered | corrupt | corrupted | crafty | crankled | crazy | criminal | crookbilled | crooknosed | crotched | crumpled | crunched | cunning | curving | curvy | dark | deceitful | deformed | deviative | devious | disfigured | dishonest | dishonorable | distorted | double | double-dealing | double-faced | doublehearted | double-minded | double-tongued | doubtful | down-curving | dubious | duplicitous | errant | evasive | faithless | false | falsehearted | false-principled | felonious | fishy | flexuous | forked | fraudulent | furcal | furcate | geniculate | geniculated | gnarled | hairpin | hamate | hamiform | hamulate | hooked | hooklike | illegal | ill-got | ill-gotten | illicit | immoral | indirect | insidious | irregular | jagged | knee-shaped | labyrinthine | lopsided | lying | Machiavellian | meandering | misshapen | nonsymmetric | not kosher | oblique | one-sided | parrot-nosed | perfidious | perverse | pointed | questionable | rambling | rhamphoid | Roman-nosed | rostrate | rostriform | rotten | roundabout | ruthless | sawtooth | saw-toothed | serpentine | serrate | shady | shameless | sharp | sharp-cornered | shifty | sinister | skew | skewed | skew-jawed | slaunchways | slippery | snaky | snide | sprung | squinting | staggered | suspicious | tortuous | treacherous | tricky | twisted | twisting | twisty | two-faced | unciform | uncinate | unconscienced | unconscientious | unconscionable | underhand | underhanded | unethical | unguiform | unlawful | unprincipled | unsavory | unscrupulous | unstraightforward | unsymmetric | untruthful | V-shaped | wamper-jawed | warped | winding | without remorse | without shame | wrong | wry | yaw-ways | Y-shaped | zigzag | zigzaggy | zigzagways

See Also | coiled | dishonorable | indirect | unlawful

Crooked In Webster's Dictionary

\Crook"ed\ (kr??k"?d), a. 1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. ``Crooked paths.'' --Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --Shak. 2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They are a perverse and crooked generation. --Deut. xxxii. 5. 3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings. {Crooked whisky}, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] --Barlett.

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