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Definition of crooked in English: crookedadjectivecrookeder, crookedest ˈkrʊkɪdˈkrʊkəd 1Bent or twisted out of shape or out of place. his teeth were yellow and crooked Example sentencesExamples - He handed the bowl and spoon to Ben and kept the plate for himself, pulling a bent and crooked little spoon of his own from his boot.
- The furniture was the wrong shape - it was curved and crooked.
- Some first or permanent teeth may be missing, abnormally shaped or crooked.
- Rows of sharp, crooked teeth protruded from between the lips that were forever twisted in a frozen snarl.
- Many are shaped like small potatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages.
- The man had his back to her and was busily arranging mugs on a crooked wooden shelf.
- Heads up, shoulders back, there wasn't even a hint of a shirt sticking out, a crooked tie or a dirty shoe, as pupils smiled broadly at the President.
- The second face was withered and ancient, with watery eyes peering out from above a crooked hooked nose.
- He has protruding or crooked teeth which affect the shape of his top lip.
- Many of the shelves were old and crooked, weighed down over the years by books and trinkets his grandfather had collected.
- He stretched out, his arm bent and crooked, and grasped the paper in between his fingertips.
- His wife smiled, showing us her lovely, crooked teeth.
- The youngest children were always afraid of him, for he looked so odd and menacing with his one eye, crooked back, hooked nose and black cloak.
- The wing lost its crooked shape, becoming straight, but not without pain to its owner.
- The thick undergrowth spilled over rotting remnants of fences and a crooked signpost at the intersection of the drive.
- He had cold blue eyes with pale blonde hair and a hooked crooked nose that made his feature ugly.
- It looked distorted and out of place with its crooked hands and bent face.
- There was this big logo on the wall shaped like a crooked cross with a big red sun in the middle.
- All the molding in the hallway is warped and crooked.
- Some were crooked, some had curves in their build, and others had great holes in their sides.
Synonyms bent, curved, twisted, contorted, warped, angled, bowed, hooked misshapen, deformed, malformed, out of shape, distorted, contorted, wry, gnarled, disfigured hunched, humped, bowed, curved Scottish thrawn 2informal Dishonest; illegal. Example sentencesExamples - A pair of thugs demand that she tell them where she keeps the stash of diamonds they are certain her crooked father left her.
- If this is true, then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten.
- Criminals of all hues from drug dealers to crooked business people are busy trying to convert hoarded pounds.
- The media should be encouraged to do more investigative stories to expose the crooked and corrupt elements in the country.
- But it's done nothing to silence the critics, who are still baying for a new, independent body to tackle crooked cops and underworld gangsters.
- Will there still be questions about crooked politicians?
- I played a crooked game and I have lost.
- One of the first things on his agenda was to issue orders to crack down on crooked police officers and drug related crimes.
- How can you begin to battle crime when so many cops are on the payrolls of criminals, be they drug pushers or crooked businessmen?
- The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
- Based on the life of crooked gangsters in New York, the story was a huge success on the film screen.
- He believed he was a crooked, corrupt individual simply out for personal gain, and he was mostly right.
- As history shows, criminals and crooked cops collude where opportunity takes them.
- A crooked financier is facing jail over a £4.5m scam to trick hospitals, including two in Yorkshire.
- A little crooked at times, he takes high-profile business cases for the money, while finding the time to defend poor clients as well.
- Drugs arrive in federal prisons via crooked guards, are smuggled in by visitors or are tossed over the wall; the provincial jail system leaves more avenues open.
- She mumbled back, ‘So tell me, who hired you and your crooked band of thugs this time?’
- The refugees' precarious situations, and their unfamiliarity with the claimant process, make them easy prey for crooked consultants.
- Is the pharmaceutical industry a dangerous and crooked business that federal and state authorities need to bring to heel?
- From the start he exploited the over-work, underfunding and inefficiency then endemic in many hospital accounts departments for his own crooked ends.
Synonyms criminal, illegal, unlawful, questionable, dubious, nefarious dishonest, dishonourable, unscrupulous, unprincipled, amoral, untrustworthy, crafty, deceitful, shifty, Janus-faced, underhand corrupt, corruptible, buyable, venal, grafting, swindling, fraudulent informal shady, tricky British informal bent, dodgy Law malfeasant 3usually crooked onAustralian NZ informal Annoyed; exasperated. ‘It's not you I'm crooked on,’ he assured Vivien
Derivatives adverb ˈkrʊkɪdliˈkrʊkədli I couldn't help it and grinned crookedly at her. Example sentencesExamples - Joints protruded roughly and the roof was crookedly fastened.
- When we spoke he smiled crookedly and seemed very happy to see us.
- His glasses had fallen halfway down his nose, hanging crookedly.
- Both frames hung crookedly against the painted surface.
noun ˈkrʊkɪdnəsˈkrʊkədnəs He became so reckless in his deceptions and crookedness precisely because he believed himself to be untouchable. Example sentencesExamples - ‘We had not realised our government was capable of such folly and such crookedness,’ thundered the leader.
- He raced along the familiar trail, cursing its narrowness, its crookedness, its unalterable length.
- The crookedness seemed to make his face even more handsome.
- However, removing the wisdom teeth does not usually improve crookedness or crowding in other teeth.
Origin Middle English: from crook, probably modelled on Old Norse krókóttr 'crooked, cunning'. Definition of crooked in US English: crookedadjectiveˈkro͝okədˈkrʊkəd 1Bent or twisted out of shape or out of place. his teeth were yellow and crooked Example sentencesExamples - He has protruding or crooked teeth which affect the shape of his top lip.
- It looked distorted and out of place with its crooked hands and bent face.
- He had cold blue eyes with pale blonde hair and a hooked crooked nose that made his feature ugly.
- The second face was withered and ancient, with watery eyes peering out from above a crooked hooked nose.
- Some were crooked, some had curves in their build, and others had great holes in their sides.
- Some first or permanent teeth may be missing, abnormally shaped or crooked.
- All the molding in the hallway is warped and crooked.
- Many of the shelves were old and crooked, weighed down over the years by books and trinkets his grandfather had collected.
- Rows of sharp, crooked teeth protruded from between the lips that were forever twisted in a frozen snarl.
- Many are shaped like small potatoes but others are curiously long and curved like crooked sausages.
- His wife smiled, showing us her lovely, crooked teeth.
- The furniture was the wrong shape - it was curved and crooked.
- The youngest children were always afraid of him, for he looked so odd and menacing with his one eye, crooked back, hooked nose and black cloak.
- The thick undergrowth spilled over rotting remnants of fences and a crooked signpost at the intersection of the drive.
- He stretched out, his arm bent and crooked, and grasped the paper in between his fingertips.
- Heads up, shoulders back, there wasn't even a hint of a shirt sticking out, a crooked tie or a dirty shoe, as pupils smiled broadly at the President.
- The man had his back to her and was busily arranging mugs on a crooked wooden shelf.
- He handed the bowl and spoon to Ben and kept the plate for himself, pulling a bent and crooked little spoon of his own from his boot.
- The wing lost its crooked shape, becoming straight, but not without pain to its owner.
- There was this big logo on the wall shaped like a crooked cross with a big red sun in the middle.
Synonyms bent, curved, twisted, contorted, warped, angled, bowed, hooked misshapen, deformed, malformed, out of shape, distorted, contorted, wry, gnarled, disfigured 2informal Dishonest; illegal. Example sentencesExamples - If this is true, then people are just naturally dishonest and crooked and downright rotten.
- I played a crooked game and I have lost.
- A pair of thugs demand that she tell them where she keeps the stash of diamonds they are certain her crooked father left her.
- The media should be encouraged to do more investigative stories to expose the crooked and corrupt elements in the country.
- The people who perpetrated that buy-back scheme are despicable, deceitful, dishonest, and crooked.
- Is the pharmaceutical industry a dangerous and crooked business that federal and state authorities need to bring to heel?
- Drugs arrive in federal prisons via crooked guards, are smuggled in by visitors or are tossed over the wall; the provincial jail system leaves more avenues open.
- Will there still be questions about crooked politicians?
- As history shows, criminals and crooked cops collude where opportunity takes them.
- But it's done nothing to silence the critics, who are still baying for a new, independent body to tackle crooked cops and underworld gangsters.
- The refugees' precarious situations, and their unfamiliarity with the claimant process, make them easy prey for crooked consultants.
- One of the first things on his agenda was to issue orders to crack down on crooked police officers and drug related crimes.
- How can you begin to battle crime when so many cops are on the payrolls of criminals, be they drug pushers or crooked businessmen?
- A crooked financier is facing jail over a £4.5m scam to trick hospitals, including two in Yorkshire.
- A little crooked at times, he takes high-profile business cases for the money, while finding the time to defend poor clients as well.
- From the start he exploited the over-work, underfunding and inefficiency then endemic in many hospital accounts departments for his own crooked ends.
- He believed he was a crooked, corrupt individual simply out for personal gain, and he was mostly right.
- She mumbled back, ‘So tell me, who hired you and your crooked band of thugs this time?’
- Criminals of all hues from drug dealers to crooked business people are busy trying to convert hoarded pounds.
- Based on the life of crooked gangsters in New York, the story was a huge success on the film screen.
Synonyms criminal, illegal, unlawful, questionable, dubious, nefarious
Origin Middle English: from crook, probably modeled on Old Norse krókóttr ‘crooked, cunning’. |