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Found 4 hits - Term: crooked, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[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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