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crooked 音標拼音: [kr'ʊkəd] a. 彎曲的,歪的,邪惡的 彎曲的,歪的,邪惡的 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 [ synonym: { crooked}, { corrupt}] [ ant: { square}, { straight}] 3: irregular in shape or outline; " asymmetrical features"; " a dress with a crooked hemline" [ synonym: { asymmetrical}, { crooked}] 4: having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; " a little oldish misshapen stooping woman" [ synonym: { hunched}, { round- backed}, { round- shouldered}, { stooped}, { stooping}, { crooked}] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [ Archaic] [ 1913 Webster] There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games. -- Ascham. [ 1913 Webster] What soever affairs pass such a man' s hands, he crooketh them to his own ends. -- Bacon. [ 1913 Webster]
Crooked \ Crook" ed\ ( kr?? k"? d), a. 1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. " Crooked paths." -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. -- Shak. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. [ 1913 Webster] They are a perverse and crooked generation. -- Deut. xxxii. 5. [ 1913 Webster] 3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings. [ 1913 Webster] { Crooked whisky}, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [ Slang, U. S.] -- Barlett. [ 1913 Webster] 182 Moby Thesaurus words for " crooked": 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
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