Meaning of CROOKED
| Pronunciation: | | 'krûkid
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- [adj] having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
- [adj] irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"
- [adj] having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
- [adj] not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
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| | Synonyms: | | akimbo(ip), anfractuous, aquiline, askew, asymmetrical, awry(p), bending, bent, cockeyed, contorted, corrupt, deflective, dishonest, distorted, geniculate, gnarled, gnarly, hooked, hunched, irregular, knobbed, knotted, knotty, lopsided, malposed, reflexed, refractive, round-backed, round-shouldered, skew-whiff, sneaky, squiggly, stooped, stooping, tortuous, twisted, twisting, twisty, underhand, underhanded, unerect, unscrupulous, warped, windblown, winding, wonky, writhed, writhen, wry, zigzag |
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| | See Also: | | coiled, dishonorable, indirect, unlawful | |
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| | Definition: | | Crooked
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| | Definition: | | \Crook"ed\ (kr??k"?d), a.
1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning;
bent; twisted; deformed. ``Crooked paths.'' --Locke.
he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --Shak.
2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted
from the right.
They are a perverse and crooked generation. --Deut.
xxxii. 5.
3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
{Crooked whisky}, whisky on which the payment of duty has
been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] --Barlett.
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| | Related Terms: | | agee, agee-jawed, akimbo, ambidextrous, amoral, anamorphous, angular, aquiline, aquiline-nosed, artful, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, beaked, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, bending, bendy, bent, billed, bill-like, bill-shaped, 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, doublehearted, double-minded, double-tongued, doubtful, down-curving, dubious, duplicitous, errant, evasive, faithless, false, falsehearted, false-principled, felonious, fishy, flexuous, forked, fraudulent, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, gnarled, hairpin, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hooked, hooklike, illegal, ill-got, ill-gotten, illicit, immoral, indirect, insidious, irregular, jagged, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, lopsided, lying, Machiavellian, meandering, misshapen, nonsymmetric, not kosher, oblique, one-sided, parrot-nosed, perfidious, perverse, pointed, questionable, rambling, rhamphoid, Roman-nosed, rostrate, rostriform, rotten, roundabout, ruthless, sawtooth, saw-toothed, serpentine, serrate, shady, shameless, sharp, sharp-cornered, shifty, sinister, skew, skewed, skew-jawed, 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, V-shaped, wamper-jawed, warped, winding, without remorse, without shame, wrong, wry, yaw-ways, Y-shaped, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways |
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