CROOKED DEFINITIONS - 13 definitions found
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: crooked, corrupt] [ant: square, straight] 3: irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline" [syn: asymmetrical, crooked] 4: having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round- backed}, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked] crooked - fucnob Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 11th Edition (2003) crooked adjective Date: 13th century 1. not straight <a crooked road> <your tie is crooked> 2. dishonest <a crooked election> <crooked politicians> • crookedly adverb • crookedness noun Oxford English Reference Dictionary
Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner\'s English Dictionary crooked 1. If you describe something as crooked, especially something that is usually straight, you mean that it is bent or twisted. ...the crooked line of his broken nose. ...a crooked little tree. ≠ straight ADJ 2. A crooked smile is uneven and bigger on one side than the other. Polly gave her a crooked grin. = lopsided ADJ • crookedly Nick was smiling crookedly at her. ADV 3. If you describe a person or an activity as crooked, you mean that they are dishonest or criminal. (INFORMAL) ...a crooked cop... = bent ADJ English-Old English dictionary crooked Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) Crooked \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. Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 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. Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak. 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham. What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon. International Standard Bible Encyclopedia CROOKED krook'-ed (`awah, `aqash, `aqalqal, `aqallathon, pethaltol; skolios): Primarily designates something that is bent, twisted or deformed (Isa 27:1; 45:2 the King James Version). Figurative: (1) It designates a course of action that deviates from rectitude, especially deceit, guile, hypocrisy (De 32:5; Pr 2:15; Ec 1:15; Lu 3:5; compare Php 2:15); (2) trials (sent by God, Ec 7:13; La 3:9); (3) difficulties (removed by God, Isa 42:16). Soule\'s Dictionary of English Synonyms crooked a. 1. Bent, curved, bowed, winding. 2. Distorted, twisted, wry, awry, askew, deformed, disfigured. 3. Perverse, contumacious, self-willed, capricious, froward. 4. Dishonest, unfair, dishonorable, knavish, unscrupulous, deceitful, tricky, insidious, crafty, intriguing, diplomatic, Machiavelian. English Explanatory Dictionary (Synonyms) crooked ̘.krukt adj. 1 criminal, dishonest, illegal, unlawful, illicit, wrong, perverse, Slang Brit bent: Selling a stolen painting is crooked. 2 bent, bowed, askew, awry, deformed, distorted, contorted, lopsided, twisted, misshapen, disfigured, warped, gnarled: Because of the constant west wind, the trees are all crooked. 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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