Crooked

Definition: Crooked

Crooked

Adjective

1. Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth".

2. Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive.

3. Irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline".

4. Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "crooked" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Synonyms: Crooked

Amusement

Leapfrog, hop skip and jump; mother may I; French and English, tug of war; blindman's bluff, hunt the slopper, hide and seek, kiss in the ring; snapdragon; cross questions and crooked answers.; crisscross, hopscotch; jacks, jackstones, marbles; mumblety-peg, mumble-the-peg, pushball, shinney, shinny, tag;

Angularity

Adjective: angular, bent, crooked, aduncous, uncinated, aquiline, jagged, serrated; falciform, falcated; furcated, forked, bifurcate, zigzag; furcular; hooked; dovetailed; knock kneed, crinkled, akimbo, kimbo, geniculated; oblique.

Cunning

Adjective: cunning, crafty, artful; skillful; subtle, feline, vulpine; cunning as a fox, cunning as a serpent; deep, deep laid; profound; designing, contriving; intriguing;Verb: strategic, diplomatic, politic, Machiavelian, timeserving; artificial; tricky, tricksy; wily, sly, slim, insidious, stealthy; underhand; (hidden); subdolous; deceitful; slippery as an eel, evasive; crooked; arch, pawky, shrewd, acute; sharp, sharp as a tack, sharp as a needle; canny, astute, leery, knowing, up to snuff, too clever by half, not to be caught with chaff.

Deviation

Wandering; Verb: vagrancy, evagation; bypaths and crooked ways; byroad.

Difficulty

Dilemma, embarrassment; deadlock; perplexity; (uncertainty); intricacy; entanglement, complexity; cross fire; awkwardness, delicacy, ticklish card to play, knot, Gordian knot, dignus vindice nodus, net, meshes, maze; coil; (convolution); crooked path; involvement.

Discord

Quarrel, dispute, tiff, tracasserie, squabble, altercation, barney, demel_, snarl, spat, towrow, words, high words; wrangling; Verb: jangle, brabble, cross questions and crooked answers, snip-snap; family jars.

Discourtesy

Bear, bruin, brute, blackguard, beast; unlicked cub; frump, crosspatch; saucebox; crooked stick; grizzly.

Distortion

Phrase: crooked as a Virginia fence.

Adjective: distorted; Verb: out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy; (short); gaunt; (thin); bloated; scalene; simous; taliped, talipedic.

Improbity

False-hearted, disingenuous; unfair, one-sided; double, double-hearted, double-tongued, double-faced; timeserving, crooked, tortuous,insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery; fishy; perfidious, treacherous, perjured.

Adverb: dishonestly; Adjective: mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths.

Irascibility

Excitability; bad temper, fiery temper, crooked temper, irritable; Adjective: temper; genus irritabile, hot blood.

Latency Implication

Indirect, crooked, inferential; by inference, by implication; implicit; constructive; allusive, covert, muffled; steganographic; understood, underhand, underground; delitescent, concealed.

Ugliness

Misshapen, misproportioned; monstrous; gaunt; (thin); dumpy; (short); curtailed of its fair proportions; ill-made, ill-shaped, ill-proportioned; crooked; (distorted); hard featured, hard visaged; ill-favored, hard-favored, evil-favored; ill-looking; unprepossessing, unattractive, uninviting, unpleasing.

Crosswords: Crooked

I love your crooked little mouth (The Firm; writing credit: David Rabe)

I did not pass through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

Don't worry about me. I'm Charles Foster Kane! I'm no cheap, crooked politician, trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes (Citizen Kane; writing credit: Herman J. Mankiewicz ; Orson Welles)

Just look at the way they sucker regular folk with their crooked games (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Crooked cops (Payback; writing credit: Brian Helgeland)

And I'll pull your crooked teeth (Ava Adore; performing artist: The smashing pumpkins)

A smile is the cheapest way to improve your looks, even if your teeth are crooked. (references; author: unknown)

The Crooked Hearts (1972)

There Was a Crooked Man... (1970)

Walk a Crooked Path (1969)

Run a Crooked Mile (1969)

Sky West and Crooked (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Crooked House (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• Crooked the Movie the Soundtrack (reference)

• Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (reference)

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Vol. 2: The Crooked Man/ The Speckled Band (reference)

• Crooked Hearts (reference)

• The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - The Crooked Man (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Crooked Rain Crooked Rain (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Crooked Horn Outfitters Slide & Flex Bino-System Binocular Strap (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

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Methods of setting Spanish mackerel gill-nets. Fig. 1. Straight set Fig. 2. Circle set. Fig. 3. Crooked set. Fig. 4. Hook set. Fig. 5. T set Fig. 6. Square set. Fig. 7. Triangle set. Fig. 8. Harpoon set. From Report U. S. Fish Commission, Part VIII, 1880. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Back Country Byway along the Crooked River. Credit: Unknown.

Rimrock and large cliff walls coming down to the Crooked River. Credit: Unknown.

The Lower Falls on the North Fork of the Crooked River. OR 5-31. Credit: Unknown.

North Fork of the Crooked River. OR 5-31. Credit: Unknown.

The Upper Falls Creek area on the North Fork of the Crooked River. OR 5-31. Credit: Berry.

Pshaw! nothing crooked about drawing a will, is there?. Credit: Library of Congress.

John H. Bromley as "Reform Party" straightens sapling of "crooked politics. Credit: Library of Congress.

Old bridge in Crooked Creek, Cambridge, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress.

Dike on Crooked Lake Marsh to control water level. Should never have been drained. Allegan County, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made plain, and the crooked places will be made straight, and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1903)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Gueulemer had one of those crooked crowbars which the prowlers call (r)fanchons

The poles were crooked and badly trimmed

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Health

For example, straight lines may appear crooked or wavy, or a blind spot may appear in the field of vision. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Crooked

Expressions using "crooked": by crooked means ♦ by crooked paths ♦ bypaths and crooked ways ♦ crooked as a Virginia fence ♦ Crooked Creek ♦ crooked dealings ♦ crooked hole ♦ Crooked Lake Park ♦ crooked line ♦ crooked path ♦ Crooked River Ra ♦ crooked stick ♦ Crooked whisky ♦ make crooked. Additional references.

Beginning with "crooked": crooked-stemmed aster.

Albanian

i shtrembër (awry, bandy, lopsided, misshapen, skew), i pjerrur, i përkulur (bandy, bended, hooked), i përdredhur (convolute, kinky, tortile, twisted), i kërrusur (bent, round shouldered), gërmuq (bender, bent). (various references)

Arabic 

‏منحن (circumflex, compass, curved, turned), ‏ملتو (circuitous, indirect, roundabout, tortuous, winding), ‏محدب (arched, bent, cambered, convex, inclination, prominent, protuberant, vaulted), ‏متقوس (bent, curved), ‏معقوف (aquiline, hooked), ‏معوج. (various references)

Bulgarian 

уродлив (gnomish, malformed, miscreated, misshapen, monstrous, teratoid), нечестен (cammed, devious, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, dodgy, faithless, false, ignominious, low down, screwy, twisty, unfair, wildcat), изкривен (awry, cockeyed, curved, hooked, lop-sided, skew, squinting, tortuous, wry), извратен (depraved, distorted, kinky, perverse, perverted, sick), извит (arched, bended, cranked, curly, curve, curved, falcate, falciform, flexous, hooked, incurved, kinky, meandering, round, tortile, tortuous, twisted). (various references)

Chinese 

骫 (be bent), 紾 (obstinate, twist a cord), 曲 (bent, song, tune, wrong), 弯曲 (Bended, Bending, Crookedly, Curved, Curving, flexion, flexure, Incurvated, Incurvating, Incurve, incurved, Incurving, inflect, inflected, Inflecting), 委 (give up, indeed, to commission), 屈曲 . (various references)

Czech

zkřivený (distorted, screwed, screwed up), pokřivený (deformed, wry), podvodný (bogus, deceitful, fraudulent, improper), ohnutý (bent), nepoctivý (dishonest), křivý (false, uneven, wry). (various references)

Danish

skaev naese (crooked nose), retningsboring (crooked hole, deflected well, deviated bore, deviated well, directional well), boejet mundstykke (bent finish, crooked finish). (various references)

Dutch

zich op oneerlýke wýze toeëigenen (cheat, do something crooked), verwrongen koprand (bent finish, crooked finish), schurkachtig handelen (cheat, do something crooked), krom gat (crooked hole), krom boorgat (crooked hole, deflected well), bochtig gat (crooked hole). (various references)

Esperanto

friponi (cheat, do something crooked). (various references)

Finnish

väärä (bent, false, faulty, incorrect, mis, twisted, unfair, untrue, wrong, wrongful), koukussa (bent), koukkuinen (bent, curved), kiero (distorted, not straight, twisted, warped, wry), kelju (fishy, unpleasant), käyrä (bent, curve, curved, diagram, graph). (various references)

French

courbé, coudé, tortu, plié (creased), de traviole. (various references)

German

krumm (awry, bandy, bent, curved, hooked, hunched, warped, wrily, wry). (various references)

Greek 

κυρτόσ (bent, convex, curved, gibbous, warped), καμπουριασμένοσ, σκολιόσ (tortuous), σκολιός (humped, tortuous, uneven), στριφτόσ, στραβός (wry), αγύρτικοσ (quackish), ανέντιμοσ (dishonest, unethical), διεστραμμένοσ (aberrant, bestial, cross-grained, distorted, perverse, pervert, perverted). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעוקם (awry, bent, curved, twisted), פתלתול (bent, curved, perverse, serpentine, twisted), עקמומי (curved), עקמני (dishonest, insincere), עקלתון (curved, labyrinth, serpentine, tortuous), עקלקל (curved, devious, meander, tortuous), עקום (bending, contortion, crooking, curvature, distortion, twist, warp, wry), עקש (hardheaded, intransigent, obstinate, perverted, stubborn, untoward, wilful, willful), כפוף (bent, bowed, bowing, flection, flexion, hunched up, inclined, reclinate, subject, subordinate, subordination, subservient), נלוז (aberrant, deviate, pervert), נפתל (perverse, twisted), נעוה (distorted, perverse, twisted). (various references)

Hungarian

görbe (bandy, bow, crump, curve, curved, devious, diagram, hooked, out of the straigh, rectification, tortuous). (various references)

Indonesian

bungkuk (humped, stoop), bongkok (bent (over), humped), bengkung, bengkong, bengkang (curve). (various references)

Italian

storto (angled, askew, awry, bandy, dippy, skew, skews, wry, wryly). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

歪 (distorted, elliptical, irregular, oval, warped). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

いびつ (distorted, elliptical, irregular, oval, warped). (various references)

Korean 

비뚤어진. (various references)

Manx

neuyeeragh (circuitous, indirect, unfair), camstram (cranky, zig-zag), cam (bent, deceitful, deformed, intricate, knotty; cam, perverse, rakish angle, wry). (various references)

Pig Latin

ookedcray.(various references)

Portuguese

curvo (bent, cambered, curved, gibbous, hook, hooked, round, tortile), tortuoso (anfractuous, bent, curved, devious, serpentine, sinuous, snaky, tortuous, torturous, winding), torto (askew, awry, cambered, criss-cross, lopsided, tortile, wry), torcido (bent, cambered, convolute, convoluted, cranky, drawn, skew, strained, tortile, warped, winding, wry), desonesto (cambered, devious, dishonest, drossy, false, immodest, impure, knavish, light-fingered, low-down, nasty, shady, sharp, shifty, thievish, tortuous, unchaste, unfair, unfaithful, untrustworthy), arqueado (arc, arched, bandy, bent, cambered, vaulted). (various references)

Romanian

cu cotituri, coroiat (hooked), cocoşat (gibbous, huckle-backed, humpback, hump-backed, humped, hunchback, hunchbacked, hunched, sandbagged), cocârjat (bent), cârn (snub, snubby, snub-nosed), strâmb (askew, aslant, awry, cock eyed, crookedly, curved, lop-sided, slanting, slantwise, wrong, wry), necinstit (dirty, dishonest, dishonestly, disingenuous, faithless, foul, fraudulent, knavish, knavishly, low down, meretricious, perfidious, raw, rotten, unfair, unfaithful, unlawful), gârbov (hunchbacked), adus de spate (humped), întortocheat (devious, serpentine, sinuous, tortuous, winding), îndoit (bent, creasy, double, doubly, hesitating, twice, twofold, wavering), încovoiat (bent, double, hooked, inflected). (various references)

Russian 

кривой;нечестный, кривой (bandy, curved, hamate, wry), корявый (rough, uneven), нечестный (cammed, dirty, dishemest, dishonest, dodgy, foul, mean, rascally, snide, unfair), изогнутый (cambered, convoluted, cranked, curly, curved, squiggly), добытый нечестным путем (ill gotten). (various references)

Scottish

crom (arched, bent, bow, bowed, curved, stoop), cam (bent, blind of one eye, distorted), geangach, fiar (bent, curved, twisted). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

vijugast, nepošten (devious, dishonest, immoral, knavish, underhand, underhanded, unprincipled, unscrupulous), kriv (awry, bandy, blameworthy, culpable, curved, guilty, leaning, wry). (various references)

Spanish

curvo (curve, curved), torcido (askew, awry, bent, distorted, furious, kinky, strained, turned, wry), pando, ladrado, encorvado (bowed, curved, hooked, slouch), deshonesto (dishonest, dishonesty, immodest, improper, indecent, nasty, sharp, undecent). (various references)

Swedish

ohederlig (bent, crookedness, dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable, nasty, unfair), krokig (bandy, bent, crookedness, curved, hooked, tortuous, winding). (various references)

Turkish

yamuk yumuk (gnarled), sahtekâr (counterfeiter, crook, dishonest, double-tongued, fabricator, fake, faker, fakir, forger, fraud, fraudulent, impostor, make believe, phoney, phony, sham, shammer), kargacık burgacık (crabbed, scratchy, twisted), hilekâr (cheat, cheater, con, con man, cross, deceitful, deceiver, double-tongued, faithless, foul, fraud, fraudulent, funk, gadgety, guileful, hard boiled, knavish, trickster, twister), eğri büğrü (gnarled, scratchy, screwed, skew, tortuous, twisted, uneven), eğri (aslant, aslope, awry, bent, cambered, cockeyed, curve, graph, oblique, out of the straight, sinuous, skew, skewed, slanting, sloping, slouching, slouchy, tortuous, trajectory, untrue, warped, wry), dolandırıcı (adventurer, bilker, carpet bagger, cheat, cheater, chiseler, chiseller, confidence man, confidence trickster, crook, deceitful, double-dealer, faker, fakir, fiddler, fraud, fraudulent, grifter, gyp, hustler, impostor, knave, lurcher, rogue, sham, shark, sharp, spieler, swindler, Twicer), deforme olmuş (deformed), çarpık çurpuk (deformed), çarpık (agley, askew, awry, cockeyed, curved, irregular, paralysed, skew, warped, wry), çökmüş (broken, broken down, cavernous, collapsed, decadent, decrepit, depressed, down, down and out, hollow, shrunk, shrunken). (various references)

Turkmen 

egri (bent). (various references)

Ukrainian

кривий (awry, bandy, bent, cam, cripple, crook, gammy, lame, wry), викревлений, нечесний (bad, bum, cammed, dishonest, sharking, shifty, sinister, snide, unfair, untrue), зігнутий (applied, arched, bent, bowed, cranked, crook, curly, curved, deflected), згорблений (bow-backed). (various references)

Vietnamese 

cong (arched, curved, curviform), vặn vẹo; xoắn quanh co, quanh co (anfractuous, crinkum-crankum, mazy, meanderingly, meandrine, oblique, sinuous, tortuous, twisty), oằn (yielding), không thật thà (disingenuous, truthless, uncandid). (various references)

Welsh

crwca (bent, bowed), cam (injury, step, wrong, wry), gwyrgam, gw+yr (Gower, oblique, sloping), anunion (indirect, unjust), aniawn (wrong), adw+yr. (various references)

ankylos. (various references)

anfractus, contorquere, curvatis, curvato, curvatus, curvus, incurva, pandus, prava, pravae, pravam, pravis, pravo, pravorum, pravum, pravus. (various references)

crump. (various references)

crochir. (various references)

slim. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "crooked": crookeder, crookedest, crookedly, crookedness, crookednesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Crooked" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: chooked, croke, cromed, crooke, crookeder, crooket, crookie, cruked, rooked. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cooked, cooker, corked, docker, recook, redock, rocked, rooked.

-2 letters: coder, coked, cooed, cooer, cored, credo, crook, decor, dreck, ocker, rodeo.

-3 letters: cero, code, coed, coke, cook, cord, core, cork, deck, deco, dock, doer, door, dore, dork, drek, kore, odor, ordo, reck, redo, rock, rode, rood, rook.

-4 letters: cod, coo, cor, doc, doe, dor, kor.

+1 letter: recooked.

+2 letters: crookeder, crookedly, outrocked, precooked.

+3 letters: crookedest, dockworker, forelocked, overcooked, peckerwood, woodpecker.

+4 letters: bloodsucker, crookbacked, crookedness, dockworkers, overstocked, peckerwoods, roadblocked, sockdolager, sockdologer, stockholder, woodpeckers.

+5 letters: bloodsuckers, sockdolagers, sockdologers, stockholders.