Crooked Synonyms & Definitions

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• CrookedDefinition & Meaning in English

(a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
(a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
(a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
(imp. & p. p.) of Crook

• CrookDefinition & Meaning in English

(n.) A bishops staff of office. Cf. Pastoral staff.
(n.) To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
(n.) A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
(n.) An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
(n.) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
(n.) The staff used by a shepherd, the hook of which serves to hold a runaway sheep.
(n.) Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
(n.) To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
(n.) A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
(n.) A pothook.
(v. i.) To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.

• CrookedlyDefinition & Meaning in English

(adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

• CrookednessDefinition & Meaning in English

(n.) The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.