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verb

Crook v. t. (past & past part. crooked; pres. part. crooking)

To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve. "Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee."

To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. (Archaic) "There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games." "What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends."

Crook v. i. To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature. " The port... crooketh like a bow." "Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards."

adjective

Crooked adj.

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. "Crooked paths." "he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere."

Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right. "They are a perverse and crooked generation."

False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. (Slang, U.S.)

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Etymology of 'Crooked'

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"Crooked" Quotes from Famous Books

... you as I do. You saw it, too, for nothing of that kind escapes you. Whatever you meditate, he probably anticipates it—you know best—and you will find him prepared. You have given him time enough. You were always the same, close, dark, and crooked, and wise in your own conceit. I am very uneasy about it, whatever it is. I can't help it. It will happen—and most ominously I feel that you are courting a dreadful retaliation, and that you will bring on yourself a great misfortune; but it ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... in the Ragozina Balka at K.'s. There is a small house with a thatched roof, and barns made of flat stone. There are three rooms, with earthen floors, crooked ceilings, and windows that lift up and down instead of opening outwards.... The walls are covered with rifles, pistols, sabres and whips. The chest of drawers and the window-sills are littered with cartridges, instruments for mending rifles, ...

— Letters of Anton Chekhov • Anton Chekhov

... bow-back he hath a battle set Of bristly pikes, that ever threat his foes; His eyes, like glow-worms, shine when he doth fret; His snout digs sepulchres where'er he goes; Being moved, he strikes whate'er is in his way, And when he strikes his crooked tushes slay. ...

— Six Centuries of English Poetry - Tennyson to Chaucer • James Baldwin

... slaves) from the civil state, and all the benefits of its Constitution,—the whole question comes before Parliament as a matter for its prudence. I do not put the thing on a question of right. That discretion, which in judicature is well said by Lord Coke to be a crooked cord, in legislature is a golden rule. Supplicants ought not to appear too much in the character of litigants. If the subject thinks so highly and reverently of the sovereign authority as not to claim anything of right, so that it may seem ...

— The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. IV. (of 12) • Edmund Burke

... him he's being taken to a crooked gambling- house, and that you're working for Max Melcher. He isn't ...

— The Auction Block • Rex Beach

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