Crooked

What do we mean by crooked?

Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles. adjective

At an irregular or improper angle; askew. adjective

Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent. adjective

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.

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. adjective

Simple past tense and past participle of crook. verb

Not straight; having one or more bends or angles. adjective

Set at an angle; not vertical or square. adjective

Dishonest or illegal; corrupt. 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 adjective

To bend, or form into a hook.

To become bent or hooked.

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Words that are spelled similarly to crooked:
crooked, cooked, crooned, rooked, crocked, croaked, brooked, crookes, crooken, crooke, cronked, crooker.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word crooked:
billet, slaughterhouse, cops, cop, royce, fingers, smile, creek, bark, pavement, spire, tributary, teeth, bent, winding, trunk, fork, twisted, gorge, nose, mirrors, stick, knife, rain, promoter, finger, stream, lake, timber, river, referee, flows, ranch, sheriff, lawyer, pond, politicians, bend, lane, missouri, smooth, oregon, township, tree, brook, reservoir, detective, straight, mouth, businessman, boss, mile, mystery, branches, neck, leg.

Words that rhyme with crooked:
book id, cooke id, look kid.

Adjectives that are often used to describe crooked:
little, straight, louisiana.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective crooked:
smile, streets, teeth, nose, ways, stick, grin, legs, path, line, finger, paths, lines, fingers, things, way, street, tree, politicians, mouth, road, policy, lanes, knife, branches, sticks, course, arm, trees, leg, generation, serpent, places, cops, river, game, hands, roads, timber, staff, cop, limbs, lane, pin, deal, ones, stream, alleys, claws, business, politician, lawyer, house, face, politics, neck, thinking, pins, spine, creek, deals, trail, branch, beak, handle, cross, horns, figure, channel, piece, mind, dealings, talons, wood, scythe, arms, trunk, feet, courses, lawyers, counsels, tooth, letters, toes, noses, heart, stairs, knives, forefinger, bones, sword.

Consonant match to crooked:
cricoid.

Words that sound like crooked:
crooked, crack head, cricket, crocket, crew cut, crewcut, cricoid, crooked i, crockett, croquette, kricket, corrected, crackled, kraka, qr code, crocoite, crackhead, crack heads, creek bed, kinkade, correct, crook, cracked, crooks, crickets, crud, croquet, cookout, croaked, creaked, creaky, crocus, crikey, caracas, cockeyed, crocked, krakow, croaky, crotchet, cracky, cricketer, crooke, crookedly, creeky, crookes, crooker, cracow, croco, cricked, cook out, krook, cock eyed, crocky, cocket, kracht, cockade, cragged, crookery, crackie, krakatau, crooken, krokus, cook-out, cock-eyed, cocot, coracoid, crew cuts, kkd, crockets, crico, crewcuts, crakow, key code, caraco, cross cut, cuckooed, orchid, kinkead, cred, coquette, carotid, crated, crid, crooking, croquettes, kick it, creuset, cockett, curded, crewet, craighead, craghead, curly head, kinkaid, caca, cackled, cacca, ca ca, ca-ca, cagot.