Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
- adjective At an irregular or improper angle; askew.
- adjective Informal Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Bent; having angles or curves; deviating from a straight line; curved; curving; winding.
- Not straight, in a figurative sense, especially as regards rectitude of conduct; not upright or straightforward; not honest; wrong; perverse; cross-grained.
- Hence Made or sold in secret, without the payment of the taxes or submitting to the regulations or inspection required by law: as, crooked whisky.
- Synonyms Bowed, awry, askew, deformed, distorted.
- Deceitful, tricky, dishonorable, knavish. See
irregular .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
- adjective Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
- adjective False; dishonest; fraudulent.
- adjective [Slang, U.S.] whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Not
straight ; having one or morebends orangles . - adjective Set at an
angle ; notvertical orsquare . - adjective figuratively
Dishonest orillegal ;corrupt . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
crook .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective irregular in shape or outline
- adjective not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
- adjective having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
- adjective having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
Etymologies
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Examples
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If this finger is crooked, then these weaknesses are all the more emphasised, but if formed _crooked and long_ the power of eloquence is also crooked.
Palmistry for All Cheiro
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And I just want to ask you very quickly, though, about the president's point, that if, in going after what he called crooked doctors, one can use administrative subpoenas without going through a judge and a jury, why isn't that appropriate to go after suspected terrorists?
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WUKAN, China Reuters - Protesting Chinese villagers on Sunday demanded that central leaders defuse grievances about what they called crooked land deals and a suspicious death, as a revolt that has tested Communist Party authority in this semi-rural area neared its second week.
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Well, I guess if being crooked is good enough for Illinois, it's good enough for the U.S.
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And the Bug sang in crooked words, so that those who listened knew that the swarm was the Sea Valley tribe, that the bears were the Meat-Eaters, and that the lazy wasp was Split-Nose.
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"So crooked is this Malik character I don't trust him as far as I can throw my car."
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"So crooked is this Malik character I don't trust him as far as I can throw my car."
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Hillary is personally involved in crooked land deals, insider trading, illegal campaign contributions, firing of white house travel agency, and a ridiculous health care plan but we want to talk about what some preacher has said in a sermon.
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I call it crooked, but hey, each to his own, ronk.
Sound Politics: Cantwell's Campaign Should Pay Its Debts 2006
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And the Bug sang in crooked words, so that those who listened knew that the swarm was the Sea Valley tribe, that the bears were the Meat-Eaters, and that the lazy wasp was Split-Nose.
senwick commented on the word crooked
"You should love your crooked neighbor with your crooked heart."- W.H. Auden, As I Walked Out One Evening.
November 3, 2008
myth commented on the word crooked
This one is as crooked as a dog's hind leg. - Columbo
March 23, 2009