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Definition of Crookedly
1. Adverb. In a crooked lopsided manner. "He smiled lopsidedly"
Definition of Crookedly
1. adv. In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Definition of Crookedly
1. Adverb. In a crooked manner. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Crookedly
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Crookedly
Literary usage of Crookedly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. New English and Italian Pronouncing and Explanatory Dictionary by John Millhouse, Ferdinando Bracciforti (1889)
"... adv. obliquely, crookedly, ... S"i wisp to rub down a horse Tortuosamente, adv.
tortuously, crookedly ..."
2. Journal of a Few Months' Residence in Portugal and Glimpses of the South of by Dorothy Wordsworth Quillinan, Edmund Lee (1895)
"Serra de Gerez: the way thus drops crookedly through wilds of tall heather,
intermingled with dwarf-oak, going sheer down in places as if much ploughed by ..."
3. Trukese-English Dictionary =: Pwpwuken Tettenin Fóós, Chuuk-Ingenes by Ward Hunt Goodenough, Hiroshi Sugita (1980)
"crooked, dishonest, not straight. crookedly ... lie crookedly or not straightly.
... cause to 1 ie crookedly or not straightly. crop ..."
4. Journal of the American Oriental Society by American Oriental Society (1889)
"to remove the mind of him (and he beholds things inverted, thinks crookedly).'
The correspondence in sense, arrangement, and word was shown ; and. as ..."
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