| 释义 |
crookedly, adv.|ˈkrʊkɪdlɪ|
[f. crooked + -ly2.]
In a crooked manner (see the adj.).
c1374Chaucer Anel. & Arc. 171 She..al crampisshed hir limmes crokedly. 1398Trevisa Barth. de P.R. xviii. ix. (1495) 760 Some serpentes crepyth and glydyth..crokydly. c1400Lanfranc's Cirurg. 140 Þe yȝen to loke asquynt eiþer crokidliche. 1578Chr. Prayers in Priv. Prayers (1851) 437 That we talk not smoothly, and walk crookedly. 1655Digges Compl. Ambass. 161 The..Ambassador..used himself very crookedly, perniciously, and maliciously against the State. 1785Phil. Trans. LXXV. 219 A crookedly branching nebula. 1866Mrs. Gaskell Wives & Dau. xi, A shawl crookedly put on. 1874Mahaffy Soc. Life Greece iii. 60 footn., The men who..decide crookedly in the agora and banish justice. |