crooked

[ krook-id for 1–4, 6; krookt for 5 ]
/ ˈkrʊk ɪd for 1–4, 6; krʊkt for 5 /
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adjective

not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
askew; awry: The picture on the wall seems to be crooked.
deformed: a man with a crooked back.
not straightforward; dishonest.
bent and often raised or moved to one side, as a finger or neck.
(of a coin) polygonal: a crooked sixpence.

Origin of crooked

1200–50; Middle English croked; see crook1, -ed2

OTHER WORDS FROM crooked

crook·ed·ly, adverb crook·ed·ness, noun un·crook·ed, adjective un·crook·ed·ly, adverb

Words nearby crooked

crook, crook one's elbow, crookback, crooke's granule, crooke's hyaline degeneration, crooked, crookery, crookes, crookes dark space, crookes lens, crookes radiometer

Words related to crookedly

off-center, awry, maliciously, askance, bent, cockeyed, curved, knotted, lopsided, oblique, obliquely, slanting, twisted, zigzag, askant, aslant, catawampus, turned, falsely

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British Dictionary definitions for crookedly

crooked
/ (ˈkrʊkɪd) /

adjective

bent, angled or winding
set at an angle; not straight
deformed or contorted
informal dishonest or illegal
crooked on (also krʊkt) Australian informal hostile or averse to

Derived forms of crooked

crookedly, adverb crookedness, noun