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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
crooked \crook"ed\ kr??k"?d, a.
1. characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning;
bent; twisted; deformed. "crooked paths." --locke.
1913 webster
he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --shak.
1913 webster
2. not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted
from the right.
1913 webster
they are a perverse and crooked generation. --deut.
xxxii. 5.
1913 webster
3. false; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
1913 webster
crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has
been fraudulently evaded. slang, u.s. --barlett.
1913 webster
see also:
crooked whisky
- [2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
crook \crook\ kr??k, v. t. imp. p. p. crooked kr??kt;
p. pr. vb. n. crooking. oe. croken; cf. sw. kr?ka, dan.
kr?ge. see crook, n.
1. to turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
1913 webster
crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --shak.
1913 webster
2. to turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to
misapply; to twist. archaic
1913 webster
there is no one thing that crooks youth more than
such unlawfull games. --ascham.
1913 webster
what soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he
crooketh them to his own ends. --bacon.
1913 webster
see also:
crooked crooking
- [3] : WordNet (r) 2.0
crooked
adj 1: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or
aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
ant: straight
2: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive syn: corrupt
ant: straight
3: irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a
dress with an crooked hemline" syn: asymmetrical
4: having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little
oldish misshapen stooping woman" syn: hunched, round-backed,
round-shouldered, stooped, stooping
see also:
straight corrupt asymmetrical hunched round-backed round-shouldered
stooped stooping
- [4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
182 moby thesaurus words for "crooked":
machiavellian, roman-nosed, v-shaped, y-shaped, agee, agee-jawed,
akimbo, ambidextrous, amoral, anamorphous, angular, aquiline,
aquiline-nosed, artful, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint,
asymmetric, awry, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bending, bendy,
bent, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed, 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,
double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful,
down-curving, dubious, duplicitous, errant, evasive, faithless,
false, false-principled, falsehearted, felonious, fishy, flexuous,
forked, fraudulent, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated,
gnarled, hairpin, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hooked, hooklike,
ill-got, ill-gotten, illegal, illicit, immoral, indirect,
insidious, irregular, jagged, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, lopsided,
lying, meandering, misshapen, nonsymmetric, not kosher, oblique,
one-sided, parrot-nosed, perfidious, perverse, pointed,
questionable, rambling, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, rotten,
roundabout, ruthless, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serpentine, serrate,
shady, shameless, sharp, sharp-cornered, shifty, sinister, skew,
skew-jawed, skewed, 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,
wamper-jawed, warped, winding, without remorse, without shame,
wrong, wry, yaw-ways, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways
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