crooked

crooked
crookedly, adv.crookedness, n.
/krook"id/ for 1-4, 6; /krookt/ for 5, adj.
1. not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
2. askew; awry: The picture on the wall seems to be crooked.
3. deformed: a man with a crooked back.
4. not straightforward; dishonest.
5. bent and often raised or moved to one side, as a finger or neck.
6. (of a coin) polygonal: a crooked sixpence.
[1200-50; ME croked; see CROOK1, -ED2]
Syn. 1. winding, devious, sinuous, flexuous, tortuous, spiral, twisted. 3. misshapen. 4. unscrupulous, knavish, tricky, fraudulent.

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