Crooked [adjective]
Definition of Crooked:
bent, angled
Synonyms of Crooked:
● Curving
● Meandering
● Twisted
● Sinuous
● Winding
● Gnarled
● Curved
● Devious
● Errant
● Serpentine
● Bowed
● Rambling
● Deformed
● Deviating
● Distorted
● Hooked
● Spiral
● Zigzag
● Slanted
● Crippled
● Angular
● Awry
● Circuitous
● Cockeyed
● Indirect
● Irregular
● Kinky
● Lopsided
● Misshapen
● Oblique
● Roundabout
● Screwy
● Snaky
● Topsy-turvy
● Tortuous
● Uneven
● Anfractuous
● Asymmetric
● Twisting
● Tilted
● Skewed
● Warped
● Contorted
● Disfigured
● Agee
● Catawampus
● Incurving
● Knurly
● Not straight
● Out of shape
● Tortile
Opposite/Antonyms of Crooked:
● Law-abiding
● Good
● Unbent
● Untwisted
● Straight
● Moral
● Lawful
● Honest
Sentence/Example of Crooked:
Our world would wobble more, our horizons would be crooked, and our shortest paths would be harder to find.
It didn’t look crooked or out of place, so I went ahead with my trip and my hiking.
He cited “the crooked Democratic machine,” which has been in decline for years.
In a town full of Bernini masterpieces, the modest jack-o-lanterns I sculpt—their crooked smiles and woefully off-center eyes—are hailed as true wonders.
I turned around and he grinned at me, his teeth as crooked as mine.
We continue along a trail sketched through the sand and bristling grasses until we arrive at a promising stand of old oaks with thick, crooked limbs.
They come to a halt suddenly, before a little huddling figure, with its face hidden in its arms, crouched beside a crooked rail.
She wore an old poke bonnet and carried a crooked stick, and there seemed to be a hump upon her back.
Amy, who was strong and quick, reached over the gunwale of the canoe and seized upon the crooked figure.
Sometimes they would clamp a crooked stick between a grooved piece of sandstone and a flat bone.