Word Meanings - CROOKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak. 2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They
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1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." Locke. he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. Shak. 2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deut. xxxii. 5. 3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings. Crooked whisky, whisky on wich the paiment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. Barlett.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CROOKED)
- Awry
- Crooked
- aslant
- askew
- atwist
- bent
- carved
- distorted
- twisted
- wrong
- Tortuous
- Devious
- circuitous
- anfractuous
- ambiguous
- complicated
- sinuous
- deceitful
- crooked
- twisting
- indirect
- sinister
- indexed
Related words: (words related to CROOKED)
- INDEXICAL
Of, pertaining to, or like, an index; having the form of an index. - CROOKBILL
A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right. - CARVOL
One of a species of aromatic oils, resembling carvacrol. - CROOKES TUBE
A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it. - CIRCUITOUS
Going round in a circuit; roundabout; indirect; as, a circuitous road; a circuitous manner of accompalishing an end. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ly, adv. -- Cir*cu"i*tous*ness, n. Syn. -- Tortuous; winding; sinuous; serpentine. - CROOKBACK
A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback. - CROOKNECK
Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The - WRONGOUS
Not right; illegal; as, wrongous imprisonment. Craig. (more info) 1. Constituting, or of the nature of, a wrong; unjust; wrongful. - WRONG
1. To treat with injustice; to deprive of some right, or to withhold some act of justice from; to do undeserved harm to; to deal unjustly with; to injure. He that sinneth . . . wrongeth his own soul. Prov. viii. 36. 2. To impute evil to unjustly; - CROOKEDLY
In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner. - TWISTING
a. & n. from Twist. Twisting pair. See under Pair, n., 7. - DECEITFUL
Full of, or characterized by, deceit; serving to mislead or insnare; trickish; fraudulent; cheating; insincere. Harboring foul deceitful thoughts. Shak. - WRONGLESS
Not wrong; void or free from wrong. -- Wrong"less*ly, adv. Sir P. Sidney. - CARVE
1. To cut. Or they will carven the shepherd's throat. Spenser. 2. To cut, as wood, stone, or other material, in an artistic or decorative manner; to sculpture; to engrave. Carved with figures strange and sweet. Coleridge. 3. To make or shape by - COMPLICATION
A disease or diseases, or adventitious circumstances or conditions, coexistent with and modifying a primary disease, but not necessarily connected with it. (more info) 1. The act or process of complicating; the state of being complicated; intricate - DISTORTIVE
Causing distortion. - INDEXICALLY
In the manner of an index. - WRONGDOING
Evil or wicked behavior or action. - AMBIGUOUS
Doubtful or uncertain, particularly in respect to signification; capable of being understood in either of two or more possible senses; equivocal; as, an ambiguous course; an ambiguous expression. What have been thy answers What but dark, Ambiguous, - INTERTWIST
To twist together one with another; to intertwine. - UNTWIST
1. To separate and open, as twisted threads; to turn back, as that which is twisted; to untwine. If one of the twines of the twist do untwist, The twine that untwisteth, untwisteth the twist. Wallis. 2. To untie; to open; to disentangle. Milton. - CROOK
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. (more - SUBINDEX
A number or mark placed opposite the lower part of a letter or symbol to distinguish the symbol; thus, a0, b1, c2, xn, have 0, 1, 2, and n as subindices.