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a cranky person (he was very crooked this morning)
This is what you would call crooked. Like when you put a shelf up and it isn't straight we would say it is all skew-whiff.
Dubious, crooked, suspect. 2. Inferior, second-rate, substandard quality
a police officer that acts illegally or unethically
Phrs. 1. Homosexual. See 'bent'. 2. Crooked, dishonest. A catch-phrase whose original meaning was version 2, but with the onset of 'bent' referring to homosexually has come to be heard more with regard to version 1. In British currency, a bob was a slang expression for a shilling (five pence) but with decimalization in 1971 became obsolete.There was never any such thing as a nine bob note, hence the simile. Cf. 'queer as a nine bob note' and 'camp as a row of tents'.
Dislike, despise or scorn. e.g. "I feel crooked on myself for the way I've treated you, forgive me"
Crook. He's always on the babble. Meaning he's always planning something crooked. See also Cook.
This was an expletive. When Beck Ollet described a referee as being "crooked as a kriffing Hutt," he was ordered off the grav-ball field with the threat of suspension otherwise.
- This is what you would call crooked. Like when you put a shelf up and it isn't straight we would say it is all skew-whiff.
Phrs. Of teeth, crooked, irregular, not in a good state.
awry, as shoe heel
Crooked or ill-balanced.
  To betray, swindle or cheat.
Zad was th century slang for something or someone crooked.
Phrs. 1. Homosexual. 2. Crooked, dishonest. See 'bottle of chips'.
Uneven, bent, lopsided. e.g. "You think you put the fence up straight, but crikey I reckon it looks as crooked as a dog's hind leg"
Askew, crooked.
A phrase applied to anything very crooked; and figuratively to persons of a stubborn temperament.
Out of place, crooked; "That looks whopperjawed.".
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n.
A kind of crooked sword or hanger.
a.
Contorted; crooked spirally; subjected to torsion; hence, perverted.
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One of certain narrow, crooked valleys seen, by aid of the telescope, on the surface of the moon.
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Bending in and out; of a serpentine or undulating form; winding; crooked.
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False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
v. t.
To make irregular, crooked, or unmeaning marks; to scribble; to scrawl.
n.
A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
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A crooked back; a humped back.
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A small breed of dogs having a long body and short crooked legs. These dogs were formerly much used for turning a spit on which meat was roasting.
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The quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.
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Crooked; tortuous; hence, perverse; unfair; dishonest.
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To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
v. t.
To make straight; to reduce from a crooked to a straight form.
n.
A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.
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Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
n.
The condition or quality of being crooked; hence, deformity of body or of mind; deviation from moral rectitude; perverseness.
n. pl.
A disease which affects children, and which is characterized by a bulky head, crooked spine and limbs, depressed ribs, enlarged and spongy articular epiphyses, tumid abdomen, and short stature, together with clear and often premature mental faculties. The essential cause of the disease appears to be the nondeposition of earthy salts in the osteoid tissues. Children afflicted with this malady stand and walk unsteadily. Called also rachitis.
adv.
In a right line; not crookedly.
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In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
superl.
Right, in a mathematical sense; passing from one point to another by the nearest course; direct; not deviating or crooked; as, a straight line or course; a straight piece of timber.
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