crookedadjective
uk/ˈkrʊk.ɪd/us/ˈkrʊk.ɪd/crooked adjective (BENT)
not forming a straight line, or having many bends:
You have to drive slowly on these crooked country roads.
His front teeth are crooked.
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Bending, twisting and curving
- bent
- bowed
- buckle
- contort
- convoluted
- crook
- fluted
- intertwine
- interweave
- knot
- matted
- meander
- meandering
- roil
- twine
- twisted
- twisty
- warp
- warped
- wring
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crooked adjective (CRIMINAL)
informal dishonest:
crooked police officers
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dishonest
- bad faith
- be rotten to the core idiom
- be up to no good idiom
- bent
- cowboy
- dubious
- false
- finagle
- fishy
- fly-by-night
- malfeasance
- mendacious
- misleading
- perjure
- rich
- underhand
- unreliable
- unscrupulous
- unsporting
- weasel
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crookedly
adverb uk/ˈkrʊk.ɪd.li/us/ˈkrʊk.ɪd.li/
She smiled crookedly at me.