crooked

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(9) 26Bad rut in crooked back road puts the car out of drive.

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  1. adjective Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
  2. adjective Informal Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.

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  • The hand was crooked, and an ugly, puckered scar ran across the back of it, and down to the twisted fingernail. —  Madam Will You Talk
  • The grin was lopsided and crooked, the way they had had to make Jablonsky himself lopsided and crooked in order to force him inside the narrow confines of that case, but it was still a smile. —  Fear is the Key
  • Of this other wonder hee sayd Dosmery poole amid the moores On top stands of a hill More then a mile about, no streames It empt, nor any fill Camelford, a market and Fayre (but not faire) towne fetcheth his deriuation from the riuer Camel, which runneth thorow it, and that, from the Cornish word Cam, in English, crooked, as Cam, from the often winding stream. —  The Survey of Cornwall And an epistle concerning the excellencies of the English tongue
  • "Get over to Caramon, you and Riverwind and Sturm. —  Dragons of Autumn Twilight
  • (9) 26Bad rut in crooked back road puts the car out of drive. —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IV No 2
 

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  1. Pp. of crook, v.; = Danish kroget, crooked.
 

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