Crooked

English

Verb

crooked

1. Simple past tense and past participle of crook.

Adjective

Crooked (comparative more Crooked, superlative most Crooked)

1. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
2. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
3. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal.

Adverbs for Crooked

unstably; sinuously; jaggedly; darkly; indirectly; implicitly; covertly; cunningly;craftily; strategically; profoundly; diplomatically; shiftily; bafflingly; bewilderingly; insidiously; unscrupulously; disgracefully; perfidiously; treacherously; infamously; contemptibly; scurvily; disloyally.

Synonyms for Crooked

bent, curved, angular, zig-zag, winding, wry, deformed, bowed; deceitful, lawbreaking, dishonest, fraudulent, criminal.

Antonyms for Crooked

straight, right, regular, direct; upright, law-abiding, honest, respectable, moral.

Thesaurus

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

Etymology 1

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Pronunciation

• Verb form: enPR: kro͝okt, IPA: /krʊkt/, SAMPA: /krUkt/

Etymology 2

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Pronunciation

• Adjective: enPR: kro͝ok'ĭd, IPA: /ˈkrʊkɪd/, SAMPA: /"krUkId/

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Translations

having one or more bends or angles

Albanian: shtrembër (sq) Bulgarian: крив (bg), извит (bg) Croatian: kriv (hr) Finnish: käyrä, mutkainen, kiero, väärä, köyry French: courbé (fr) German: krumm (de), schief (de) Hebrew: עקום (he) (akúm)

Hungarian: ferde (hu) Irish: cam (ga) Kurdish: چه‌وت (ku) Old English: ġēap (ang) Portuguese: torto (pt) Romanian: strâmb (ro) Scottish Gaelic: crom (gd), lùbach (gd)

set at an angle

Bulgarian: изкривен (bg) Finnish: vino (fi), kiero (fi) Hebrew: נטוי (he) (natúi)

Kurdish: خوار (ku) Portuguese: torto (pt) m.

figurative: dishonest, illegal

Bulgarian: нечестен (bg) Finnish: kiero (fi), kelju (fi) Hebrew: עקש (he) (ikésh)

Kurdish: چه‌وت, چه‌وتوچێڵ Portuguese: escuso (pt) m.