Definition of crooked

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Crooked (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

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Bow :: Bow (v. t.) To cause to deviate from straightness; to bend; to inflect; to make crooked or curved.
Cowhage :: Cowhage (n.) A leguminous climbing plant of the genus Mucuna, having crooked pods covered with sharp hairs, which stick to the fingers, causing intolerable itching. The spiculae are sometimes used in medicine as a mechanical vermifuge..
Kimbo :: Kimbo (a.) Crooked; arched; bent.
Crooked :: Crooked (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Twistical :: Twistical (a.) Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest..
Rickets :: Rickets (n. pl.) A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis..
Rille :: Rille (n.) One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon..
Camoys :: Camoys (a.) Flat; depressed; crooked; -- said only of the nose.
Game :: Game (n.) Crooked; lame; as, a game leg..
Crookedly :: Crookedly (adv.) In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
Golf :: Golf (n.) A game played with a small ball and a bat or club crooked at the lower end. He who drives the ball into each of a series of small holes in the ground and brings it into the last hole with the fewest strokes is the winner.
Futtock :: Futtock (n.) One of the crooked timbers which are scarfed together to form the lower part of the compound rib of a vessel; one of the crooked transverse timbers passing across and over the keel.
Antiguggler :: Antiguggler (n.) A crooked tube of metal, to be introduced into the neck of a bottle for drawing out the liquid without disturbing the sediment or causing a gurgling noise..
Crooked :: Crooked (imp. & p. p.) of Croo.
Pravity :: Pravity (n.) Deterioration; degeneracy; corruption; especially, moral crookedness; moral perversion; perverseness; depravity; as, the pravity of human nature..
Humpback :: Humpback (n.) A crooked back; a humped back.
Acrook :: Acrook (adv.) Crookedly.
Kam :: Kam (n.) Crooked; awry.
Meander :: Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries..
Bend :: Bend (v. t.) To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to bend a bow; to bend the knee..
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