crooked
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Crooked \Crook"ed\ (kr??k"?d), a.
1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning;
bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." --Locke.
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he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --Shak.
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2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted
from the right.
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They are a perverse and crooked generation. --Deut.
xxxii. 5.
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3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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{Crooked whisky}, whisky on which the payment of duty has
been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] --Barlett.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
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Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak.
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2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to
misapply; to twist. [Archaic]
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There is no one thing that crooks youth more than
such unlawfull games. --Ascham.
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What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he
crooketh them to his own ends. --Bacon.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
182 Moby Thesaurus words for "crooked":
Machiavellian, Roman-nosed, V-shaped, Y-shaped, 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, meandering, misshapen, nonsymmetric, not kosher, oblique,
one-sided, parrot-nosed, perfidious, perverse, pointed,
questionable, rambling, rhamphoid, 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,
wamper-jawed, warped, winding, without remorse, without shame,
wrong, wry, yaw-ways, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways
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