Crooked

ahd-5
  • adjective. Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
  • adjective. At an irregular or improper angle; askew.
  • adjective. Dishonest or unscrupulous; 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.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
  • adjective. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
  • adjective. False; dishonest; fraudulent.
  • adjective. whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
  • adjective. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
  • adjective. Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
  • verb. Simple past tense and past participle of crook.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. irregular in shape or outline
  • adjective. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
  • adjective. having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
  • adjective. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
  • Word Usage
    "If this finger is crooked, then these weaknesses are all the more emphasised, but if formed _crooked and long_ the power of eloquence is also crooked."
    Antonyms
    Words with the opposite meaning
    straight  
    cross-reference
    angular  artful  askew  bent  curved  
    Equivalent
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    verb-stem
    crook