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Definition of Crooked
1. Adjective. Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned. "Crooked teeth"
Also: Indirect, Coiled
Similar to: Akimbo, Anfractuous, Aquiline, Hooked, Askew, Awry, Cockeyed, Lopsided, Skew-whiff, Wonky, Contorted, Writhed, Writhen, Deflective, Refractive, Geniculate, Gnarled, Gnarly, Knobbed, Knotted, Knotty, Malposed, Reflexed, Squiggly, Tortuous, Twisting, Twisty, Voluminous, Winding, Warped, Windblown, Wry, Zig-zag, Zigzag
Derivative terms: Crookedness
Antonyms: Straight
2. Adjective. Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive.
Attributes: Honestness, Honesty
Also: Dishonest, Dishonorable, Unlawful
Similar to: Sneaky, Underhand, Underhanded
Derivative terms: Corruptness, Crookedness
Antonyms: Straight
3. Adjective. Irregular in shape or outline. "A dress with a crooked hemline"
4. Adjective. Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect. "A little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
Definition of Crooked
1. a. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Definition of Crooked
1. Verb. (past of crook) ¹
2. Adjective. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles. ¹
3. Adjective. Set at an angle; not vertical or square. ¹
4. Adjective. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crooked
1. dishonest [adj -EDER, -EDEST] - See also: dishonest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crooked
Literary usage of Crooked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury by Thomas ( Hobbes (1845)
"You ask me what crooked line has parts not crooked; and I answer, it is that line
which with a straight line makes a rectilineal triangle. ..."
2. A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism by James Clerk Maxwell (1892)
"In Ampere's second experiment one of the wires is bent and crooked with a number
... A current, flowing through the crooked wire and back again through the ..."
3. Annual Report by New York (State) (1871)
"crooked LAKE CANAL Extends from Dresden on Seneca lake to Penn Yan, and connects
with the crooked lake there; length, eight miles. ..."
4. The Call of the Hen; Or, The Science of the Selection and Breeding of Poultry by National Council of Teachers of English Committee on Recreational Reading, Walter Hogan, Sherman Dickinson, Harry Reynolds Lewis, Raymond William Gregory, Louis Renou, B. K. Hindse, A. V. Leontovich, Arthur John Arberry (1913)
"crooked Pelvic Bone. "BB" Position Two. man, but every poultry-woman has seen
cases where a hen has gone on the nest and after a couple of hours commence to ..."
5. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"The verb, says Pliny, was first applied to men who ploughed crooked nages, and
afterwards to men who gave crooked answers in the, law courts, ..."
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