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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.

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

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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