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crooked

/'krʊkɪd/

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adjective
irregular in shape or outline
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"a dress with a crooked hemline"

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asymmetrical irregular
adjective
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
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hunched round-backed round-shouldered stooped stooping unerect
adjective
not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
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corrupt underhand sneaky underhanded

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straight
adjective
having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
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"crooked country roads" "crooked teeth"

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contorted deflective zigzag akimbo anfractuous aquiline askew awry cockeyed twisty voluminous warped windblown winding wonky writhed writhen wry zig-zag geniculate gnarled gnarly hooked knobbed knotted knotty lopsided malposed reflexed refractive skew-whiff squiggly tortuous twisting

Opposite:

straight

Examples of crooked

"a dress with a crooked hemline"
"crooked country roads"
"crooked teeth"