crooked

• If a parent perceives that a child is growing crooked, the proper remedy is, to withdraw it from all pursuits which tax one particular set of muscles, and turn it out to exercise in sports, or in gardening, in the fresh air, when all the muscles will be used, and the whole system strengthened. —  A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School
• The streets of cities are generally narrow and crooked, and are not paved. —  Modern Persia
• It had ten limbs--long, crooked, and covered with hair, like the body--two curved claw-like antennae or feelers in front, and two horns projecting behind, so that, but for the sharp fiery eyes of the creature, it would have been difficult to tell its head from its hinder part. —  The Boy Hunters
• The gun just went off crooked, and grazed Jap Kemp's hand a little, not much. —  A Voice in the Wilderness
• The fingers remain swelled and crooked, the hand withered, and the joint having a very confined motion. —  The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20)

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