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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of uncrook.
  • adjective Not crooked; straight.

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Examples

  • Or, when a man wins a presidential race legally and uncrooked when some of his supporters have even been seen outside with night sticks, is this going to be the future of our true free america?

    Live Blogging the House and Senate Races - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2008

  • ’ As by now all his fingers were used up, he uncrooked all his fingers and went on: ‘This is the theoretical view; but I imagine you have done me the honour to apply to me in order to learn its application in practice.

    Chapter V. Part IV 1917

  • He shook hands as with one of his own sex, spine uncrooked; he greeted them with level voice, not as one who addresses a thing afraid of sound.

    Our Friend the Charlatan George Gissing 1880

  • Aaron Jasinski's expressive illustrations bring a sly raffishness to the characters, counteracting the Magic Kingdom cheerfulness of this unusually uncrooked Prague.

    NYT > Home Page By JUDITH SHULEVITZ 2011

  • Suspicion is the latest and most difficult lesson of the honest and uncrooked mind.

    Imogen A Pastoral Romance William Godwin 1796

  • Buyer beware sounds great if you have an uncrooked lawyer in your pocket.

    Tyee - Home 2009

  • As by now all his fingers were used up, he uncrooked all his fingers and went on: “This is the theoretical view; but I imagine you have done me the honor to apply to me in order to learn its application in practice.

    Anna Karenina 2003

  • As by now all his fingers were used up, he uncrooked all his fingers and went on: "This is the theoretical view; but I imagine you have done me the honor to apply to me in order to learn its application in practice.

    Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869

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