crookedlyadv.
/ˈkrʊkɪdli/ In a crooked manner (see the adjective).
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > dishonesty > [adverb]
falsely1303
crookedlyc1374
sinistrously1460
dishonestlya1616
unparliamentarily1660
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > crookedness > [adverb]
crookedlyc1374
undirectly1535
indirectly1580
obliquely1601
fishily1851
back-handedly1859
the world > space > shape > misshapenness > [adverb] > crookedly
ahoo?a1200
crookedlyc1374
awry1487
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adverb] > not in straightforward manner
undirectly1535
indirectly1580
obliquely1601
crookedlya1639
back-handedly1859
society > morality > moral evil > lack of principle or integrity > [adverb] > dishonestly
falsely1303
naughtily1553
surreptiously1573
surreptitiously1587
dishonestlya1616
crookedlya1639
c1374 G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 171 She..al crampisshed hir limmes crokedly.
c1400 Lanfranc's Cirurg. 140 Þe yȝen to loke asquynt eiþer crokidliche.
1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xviii. ix. sig. Zviv/2 Some [serpents] crepyth & glydyth awaye wygglynge & crokydly [a1398 BL Add. wigelyng and crokynge].
1578 Bk. Christian Prayers in Private Prayers (1851) 437 That we talk not smoothly, and walk crookedly.
a1639 D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 161 The..Ambassador..used himself very crookedly, perniciously, and maliciously against the State.
1785 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 75 219 A crookedly branching nebula.
a1865 E. C. Gaskell Wives & Daughters (1866) I. xi. 126 A shawl crookedly put on.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece The men who..decide crookedly in the agora and banish justice.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2020).
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