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crooked English

Meaning crooked meaning

What does crooked mean?

Definitions in simple English

crooked Adjective

— If something is crooked, it is not straight; it has many bends or angles. We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill. — If something is standing or set up crooked, it is set up at an angle. That picture is crooked. Could you straighten it for me? — If someone or something is crooked, they are not honest or it is not allowed by law; they are dishonest; it is illegal. He was trying to make another crooked deal.

crooked

— adjective having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned crooked country roads crooked teeth — adjective not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive — adjective (= asymmetrical) irregular in shape or outline asymmetrical features a dress with a crooked hemline — adjective (= stooped, stooping) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect a little oldish misshapen stooping woman

Synonyms crooked synonyms

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crooked English » English

bent curved twisted winding not straight distorted dishonest warped awry askew hunched zigzag slanting corrupt oblique hooked curled tortuous stooping stooped slanted round-shouldered round-backed lopsided bend wry underhanded perverse knotted hunchbacked deformed curvy cockeyed aslant zigzagging wrong wonky wily uneven turned sneaky sloping perverted misshapen lame irregular inclined fraudulent entangled dirty

Topics crooked topics

What do people use crooked to talk about?

Person Body Head

Tooth

What words describe a person's teeth?

even crooked decayed white yellow

Social behavior Behavior Honest

Dishonest

What words describe someone who does not tell the truth?

dishonest lying devious sly untrustworthy sneaky unscrupulous have no scruples corrupt crooked

Physical actions Posture

Bend down

What words describe someone who is bent over?

bent stooped hunched over humpback crooked

States Quality Shape Horizontal

Examples crooked examples

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Simple sentences

The picture is hung crooked.

Your tie is crooked.

I have crooked teeth.

He was egging an innocent young man on to join him in his crooked deal.

Tom is a crooked cop.

The tree is crooked.

That used car salesman is as crooked as a dog's hind leg.

All the paintings in the room hung crooked.

Movie subtitles

It's a crooked land deal.

Owner of several buildings in the residential part of Paris, a usurer, a crooked but careful businessman, father Moche always pays his bills on time.

All you've got in the world is a dirty deck of cards, and a crooked one at that.

For crying out loud, I heard some guys talking about you. saying you were in on some crooked work.

You can hide behind a lot of red tape, crooked lawyers, habeas corpus, witnesses that don't remember, but we'll get through to you like the rest.

I know about politics, and I know all about the crooked deals you bragged about.

I've dropped enough money in Blackie Gallagher's crooked joints.

We had one or two crooked inspectors. Well, they're gone now.

That's why they turned crooked.

As soon as a community becomes rich, a town important, corruption springs up, thieving cattle barons, organized gangs of cutthroats, crooked judges, sheriffs, district attorneys.

Who are you gonna believe, me or those crooked x-rays?

The swine, the crooked swine.

They tell me he was so crooked that when he died, they had to screw him into the ground.

The game was as crooked as a hog's tail.

No crooked games with them.

All you got in the world is a dirty deck of cards and a crooked one at that.

Watch out, he's nearly as crooked as you.

I will not stand for anything that's crooked or unfair.

So everyone beware, who's crooked or unfair.

He wanted Stuffy to be crooked, eh?

Crooked fan. Search everywhere.

So, if I'm a crook and Nora's father's an honest man. why should I give him a share of any crooked deal I put over?

The people of my state need permanent relief from crooked men!

A David without a slingshot rises to battle the mighty Goliath, the Taylor machine, allegedly crooked inside and out!

Talk nothing over. Your game is crooked.

That you not only sing down at that saloon. but you also take part in crooked poker games. cheatin' folks out of their ranches.

They make crooked business against you.

Crooked people, crooked jockey, don't mean nothing to him, nothing.

As I wandered along the crooked streets, there wasn't a soul to be seen.

You're a cheap, crooked grafter.

I'm no cheap, crooked politician trying to save himself from the consequences of his crimes!

Let us be crooked but never common.

Don't be too sure I'm as crooked as I'm supposed to be.

News and current affairs

Even the once gentlemanly game of cricket has been tainted by the infiltration of gambling networks and other crooked dealers.

Indeed, the scandals look even punier when one realizes that the list of crooked US companies, like Enron, is short.

Nikolay is disposed of by having him framed for his wife's murder and tried by a crooked court.

Am I the only one who finds this logic a bit crooked?

Toledo assumed the presidency planning to dismantle the corruption that marked Fujimori's administrations and end the reign of his crooked chief of intelligence, Vladimiro Montesinos.

But if people believe that the moneyed are primarily those who are well connected or crooked, their tolerance for monetary transactions falls.

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