Crooked

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
  • adj. Informal Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • v. Simple past tense and past participle of crook.
  • adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
  • adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
  • adj. Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
  • adj. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
  • adj. False; dishonest; fraudulent.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Bent; having angles or curves; deviating from a straight line; curved; curving; winding.
  • Not straight, in a figurative sense, especially as regards rectitude of conduct; not upright or straightforward; not honest; wrong; perverse; cross-grained.
  • Hence Made or sold in secret, without the payment of the taxes or submitting to the regulations or inspection required by law: as, crooked whisky.
  • Synonyms Bowed, awry, askew, deformed, distorted.
  • Deceitful, tricky, dishonorable, knavish. See irregular.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. irregular in shape or outline
  • adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
  • adj. having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
  • adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
  • Equivalent
    irregular    sneaky    underhanded    underhand    writhed    malposed    knotted    refractive    writhen    awry   
    Antonym
    straight   
    Cross Reference
    bent    curved    angular    sinuous    winding    askew    zigzag    twisted    dishonest    indirect   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    turning    bent    twisted    deformed    false    dishonest    fraudulent    cranky    crank   
    Verb Stem
    crook