crooked
adjective
[ ˈkrʊkɪd ]
• bent or twisted out of shape or out of place.
• "his teeth were yellow and crooked"
Similar:
bent,
curved,
recurved,
twisted,
contorted,
warped,
angled,
bowed,
hooked,
misshapen,
deformed,
malformed,
out of shape,
distorted,
wry,
gnarled,
disfigured,
hunched,
humped,
thrawn,
• dishonest; illegal.
• "a crooked business deal"
Similar:
criminal,
illegal,
unlawful,
questionable,
dubious,
nefarious,
dishonest,
dishonourable,
unscrupulous,
unprincipled,
amoral,
untrustworthy,
crafty,
deceitful,
shifty,
Janus-faced,
underhand,
corrupt,
corruptible,
buyable,
venal,
grafting,
swindling,
fraudulent,
shady,
tricky,
bent,
dodgy,
malfeasant,
• annoyed; exasperated.
• "‘It's not you I'm crooked on ,’ he assured Vivien"
Origin:
Middle English: from crook, probably modelled on Old Norse krókóttr ‘crooked, cunning’.
crook
verb
• bend (something, especially a finger as a signal).
• "he crooked a finger for the waitress"
Origin:
Middle English (in the sense ‘hooked tool or weapon’): from Old Norse krókr ‘hook’. A noun sense ‘deceit, guile, trickery’ (compare with crooked) was recorded in Middle English but was obsolete by the 17th century The Australian senses are abbreviations of crooked.
