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[ krook-id for 1-4, 6; krookt for 5 ] / ˈkrʊk ɪd for 1-4, 6; krʊkt for 5 / SEE SYNONYMS FOR crooked ON THESAURUS.COM
adjectivenot straight; bending; curved: a crooked path. askew; awry: The picture on the wall seems to be crooked. deformed: a man with a crooked back. not straightforward; dishonest. bent and often raised or moved to one side, as a finger or neck. (of a coin) polygonal: a crooked sixpence. Origin of crooked1200–50; Middle English croked;see crook1, -ed2 SYNONYMS FOR crooked1 winding, devious, sinuous, flexuous, tortuous, spiral, twisted. 3 misshapen. 4 unscrupulous, knavish, tricky, fraudulent. SEE SYNONYMS FOR crooked ON THESAURUS.COM OTHER WORDS FROM crookedcrook·ed·ly, adverbcrook·ed·ness, nounun·crook·ed, adjectiveun·crook·ed·ly, adverbWords nearby crookedcrony, cronyism, Cronyn, crook, crookback, crooked, crookery, Crookes, Crookes dark space, Crooke's granule, Crooke's hyaline degeneration Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for crookedWe continue along a trail sketched through the sand and bristling grasses until we arrive at a promising stand of old oaks with thick, crooked limbs. We didn’t track hurricanes hundreds of years ago—but trees did|Greta Moran|October 16, 2020|Popular Science And there was an underlying compassion for each character, no matter how crooked or misguided or totally bananas. ‘American Hustle’ Is Overrated|Kevin Fallon|January 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST Smiling on the red carpet, Gaga showed off a set of oversized rotten dentures, featuring "metallic gums and crooked teeth." Lady Gaga Experiments with Rotten Teeth; Kerry Washington Plays a Realistic Michelle Obama|The Fashion Beast Team|November 4, 2013|DAILY BEAST The economy melts down because of something a bunch of crooked bankers do. The Republicans’ Food Stamp Fraud: It’s Not About Austerity|Michael Tomasky|October 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST
A person, Kant tells us, is crooked timber from which no straight thing can be made. A Hebrew Democratic State for All Its Citizens|Bernard Avishai|October 3, 2013|DAILY BEAST In 2001 Scottish writer A.L. Kennedy had some harsh words about the prize, calling it “a pile of crooked nonsense.” The 12 Biggest Booker Prize Controversies|Thomas Flynn|July 23, 2013|DAILY BEAST And he had a crooked, embarrassed smile that was a delight to see. IT and Other Stories|Gouverneur Morris It was so crooked that when you started to ride on it youd meet yourself coming back. Frank Merriwell's Alarm|Burt L. Standish Why, I'm plain, and old and blind and crooked—but he don't know it. This morning I saw him hold up two fingers, the third crooked, in sign of the remaining "two and a stump." Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist|Alexander Berkman He is small, clean-shaven, with a crooked nose and a noticeable blink. At Ypres with Best-Dunkley|Thomas Hope Floyd
British Dictionary definitions for crooked
adjectivebent, angled or winding set at an angle; not straight deformed or contorted informal dishonest or illegal crooked on (also krʊkt) Australian informal hostile or averse to Derived forms of crookedcrookedly, adverbcrookedness, nounCollins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to crookedcurving, meandering, twisted, sinuous, winding, gnarled, curved, devious, errant, serpentine, twisting, unscrupulous, deceitful, shady, dishonest, fraudulent, bowed, rambling, deformed, deviating |