'Crooked' definitions:
Definition of 'crooked'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" [ant: straight]
adjective
adjective
Irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline" [syn: asymmetrical, crooked]
adjective
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round- backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked]
Definition of 'Crooked'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic] [1913 Webster]
- There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. --Ascham. [1913 Webster]
- What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Crooked'
From: GCIDE
- Crooked \Crook"ed\ (kr??k"?d), a.
- 1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. [1913 Webster]
- They are a perverse and crooked generation. --Deut. xxxii. 5. [1913 Webster]
- 3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings. [1913 Webster]
- Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] --Barlett. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'crooked'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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,
- Machiavellian,
- meandering,
- misshapen,
- nonsymmetric,
- not kosher,
- oblique,
- one-sided,
- parrot-nosed,
- perfidious,
- perverse,
- pointed,
- questionable,
- rambling,
- rhamphoid,
- Roman-nosed,
- 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,
- V-shaped,
- wamper-jawed,
- warped,
- winding,
- without remorse,
- without shame,
- wrong,
- wry,
- Y-shaped,
- yaw-ways,
- zigzag,
- zigzaggy,
- zigzagways
Words containing 'Crooked'
- Crook,
- Crook, OR,
- Crookedly,
- Crooking,
- Crooks,
- crookes,
- By hook or by crook,
- Camp Crook,
- Crook County,
- Crook County, OR,
- Crook, CO,
- Crook, WY,
- Crooked Creek,
- Crooked whisky,
- Crookes layer,
- Crookes space,
- Crookes tube,
- Crooks, SD,
- Shepherd's crook,
- crookes radiometer,
- william crookes,
- Camp Crook, SD,
- Crook County, WY,
- Crooked Creek, AK,
- Crooked Lake Park,
- Knee-crooking,
- Throw-crook,
- sir william crookes,
- Crooked Lake Park, FL,
- crooked-stemmed aster