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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

Machiavellian, Roman-nosed, V-shaped, Y-shaped, agee, agee-jawed, akimbo, ambidextrous, amoral, anamorphous, angular, aquiline, aquiline-nosed, artful, askance, askant, askew, askewgee, asquint, asymmetric, awry, beak-nosed, beak-shaped, beaked, bending, bendy, bent, bill-like, bill-shaped, billed, bowed, catawampous, catawamptious, chevronwise, chevrony, circuitous, clawlike, cockeyed, conscienceless, contorted, cornered, corrupt, corrupted, crafty, crankled, crazy, criminal, crookbilled, crooknosed, crotched, crumpled, crunched, cunning, curving, curvy, dark, deceitful, deformed, deviative, devious, disfigured, dishonest, dishonorable, distorted, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful, down-curving, dubious, duplicitous, errant, evasive, faithless, false, false-principled, falsehearted, felonious, fishy, flexuous, forked, fraudulent, furcal, furcate, geniculate, geniculated, gnarled, hairpin, hamate, hamiform, hamulate, hooked, hooklike, ill-got, ill-gotten, illegal, illicit, immoral, indirect, insidious, irregular, jagged, knee-shaped, labyrinthine, lopsided, lying, meandering, misshapen, nonsymmetric, not kosher, oblique, one-sided, parrot-nosed, perfidious, perverse, pointed, questionable, rambling, rhamphoid, rostrate, rostriform, rotten, roundabout, ruthless, saw-toothed, sawtooth, serpentine, serrate, shady, shameless, sharp, sharp-cornered, shifty, sinister, skew, skew-jawed, skewed, slaunchways, slippery, snaky, snide, sprung, squinting, staggered, suspicious, tortuous, treacherous, tricky, twisted, twisting, twisty, two-faced, unciform, uncinate, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unguiform, unlawful, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unstraightforward, unsymmetric, untruthful, wamper-jawed, warped, winding, without remorse, without shame, wrong, wry, yaw-ways, zigzag, zigzaggy, zigzagways

Dictionary Results for crooked:

1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)

crooked
    adj 1: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or
           aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth" [ant:
           straight]
    2: not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive [syn:
       crooked, corrupt] [ant: square, straight]
    3: irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a
       dress with a crooked hemline" [syn: asymmetrical,
       crooked]
    4: having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little
       oldish misshapen stooping woman" [syn: hunched, round-
       backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping,
       crooked]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crook \Crook\ (kr??k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooked (kr??kt);
   p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. kr?ka, Dan.
   kr?ge. See Crook, n.]
   1. To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
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            Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. --Shak.
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   2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to
      misapply; to twist. [Archaic]
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            There is no one thing that crooks youth more than
            such unlawfull games.                 --Ascham.
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            What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he
            crooketh them to his own ends.        --Bacon.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Crooked \Crook"ed\ (kr??k"?d), a.
   1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning;
      bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." --Locke.
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            he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. --Shak.
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   2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted
      from the right.
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            They are a perverse and crooked generation. --Deut.
                                                  xxxii. 5.
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   3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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   Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has
      been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.] --Barlett.
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