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1. Irregular in shape or outline
   "a dress with a crooked hemline";
   - asymmetrical
    
2. Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
   "a little oldish misshapen crooked woman";
   - hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping
    
3. Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
   "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
    
4. [informal] Tending to act dishonestly in exchange for money or other personal gain
   - corrupt, bent [Brit, informal]

1. Bend or cause to bend
   "He crooked his index finger";
   - curve

Derived forms: crookeder, crookedest

See also: akimbo, anfractuous, aquiline, askew, awry, cockeyed [informal], coiled, configuration, conformation, contorted, contour, deflective, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], form, geniculate, gnarled, gnarly, honestness, honesty, hooked, indirect, irregular, knobbed, knotted, knotty, lopsided, malposed, reflexed, refractive, shape, skew-whiff [Brit, informal], sneaky, squiggly, tortuous, twisting, twisty, underhand, underhanded, unerect, unlawful, voluminous, warped, windblown, winding, windy[2], wonky [informal], writhed, writhen, wry, zigzag, zig-zag

Type of: bend, flex

Antonym: straight

Encyclopedia: Crooked