[
US
/ˈkɹʊkəd/
]
ADJECTIVE
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having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
a little oldish misshapen stooping woman -
having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
crooked teeth
crooked country roads -
irregular in shape or outline
a dress with a crooked hemline
asymmetrical features - not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
How To Use crooked In A Sentence
- A lot of them were marked, or born wrong, or crooked, or scabious, looking for help from the Nazarene, for some panacea. A ROOMFUL OF BIRDS - SCOTTISH SHORT STORIES 1990
- He has liver disease now; but his sickness is a judgment of God, and he will die crooked. WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL
- Presently I saw a man leaning on a two-strand barbed-wire fence, the wires fixed not to posts but to crooked tree limbs stuck in the ground.
- If the cylinder does not line up with the bore vertically, you are plumb out of luck since the base pin frame holes could be drilled crooked or the frame warped from heat treatment or stress.
- crooked malposed teeth
- There will be no more duplicity, crookedness, and desire for name, fame, and prestige.
- Just as the crooked mass of shiny-leafed buttonbush, and even the swamp dwelling mayapple - its umbrella-like leaves shading sweet yellow fruit - need fire's fertilizing hand, so too does the wildlife.
- He had a stern, squarish jaw, and a rather crooked nose.
- It's closely followed by ‘cosmetic recontouring’, which straightens crooked teeth with a few additions and subtractions.
- Suddenly they stop, statue-still, their knees crooked around one another, like fingers pulling on a wishbone.