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What is the adjective for crooked?

What's the adjective for crooked? Here's the word you're looking for.

Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs crook and crooken which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

crooked

Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
(figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
Synonyms:

winding, twisting, sinuous, tortuous, zigzag, meandering, serpentine, anfractuous, deviating, bending, crazy, curled, curling, curved, curving, curvy, devious, irregular, twisted, windy, agee, angular, catawampus, circuitous, incurving, indirect, jagged, kinked, kinky, rambling, roundabout, screwy, snaky, spiral, tortile, snaking, twisty, flexuous, meandrous, bent, zigzagging, undulating, spiraling, mazy, turning, spiralling, coiling, convoluted, coiled, wandering … more

Examples:

“Men gathered in the bars of the crooked streets.”

“The machine is wrought by a buffalo yoked to the small end of the crooked beam.”

“His crooked grin quickly vanished into a stern frown.”

crook

(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Ill, sick.
(Australia, New Zealand, slang) Annoyed, angry; upset.
Synonyms:

peaky, sick, ill, unwell, indisposed, pale, poorly, sickly, pallid, wan, peaked, ashen, pasty, unhealthy, queasy, bad, nauseous, ailing, anemic, anaemic, bloodless, colourless, sallow, liverish, nauseated, lousy, rough, crummy, off, wabbit, colorless, ropy, funny, sickened, grotty, unsound, seedy, peakish, ashy, drained, peculiar, etiolated, rotten, gray, terrible, grey, awful, dreadful, punk, down … more

crookbacked

hunchbacked
Synonyms:

humped, rounded, bowed, arched, bent, humpbacked, embowed, curved, hunched, hunchbacked, curviform, kyphotic, bulging, protuberant, convex, gibbous, domed, vaulted, concave, stooped, camelback, deformed, hooked, falcate, arced, aquiline, falciform, crescent, arcuate, arciform, declinate, enbowed, flexural, elliptical, incurvate, looped, biflected, curvaceous, swirly, incurved, circular, round, compass, circumflex, arrondi, warped … more

Examples:

“The lintel twists with numerals, the four walls buckling with crookbacked joists until ghosts hang homeless in the lurching levels.”

“But it so happened that the small crookbacked old man once again came wandering with his sack on the back.”

“Fresh evidence can come to light, as Richard III's crookbacked skeleton recently did in an English parking lot.”

crookeder

comparative form of crooked: more crooked
Examples:

“So the crooked courses will become crookeder, at any moment, for the least reason, or for none.”

crookedest

superlative form of crooked: most crooked

crooker

comparative form of crook: more crook
Examples:

“Judge crooker came in the evening with ice-cream and a frosted cake.”

“Then, as the visitor departed, old Mr. crooker looked round and saw Bert.”

crookest

superlative form of crook: most crook

crooking

present participle of crook
Synonyms:

curving, bending, arching, bowing, hooking, arcing, arcking, swerving, curling, wheeling, rounding, sweeping, trending, winding, angling, snaking, meandering, zigzagging, forking, notching, slithering, falling off, turning, twisting, flexing, looping, buckling, coiling, swinging, incurvating, veering, deviating, hunching, contorting, warping, deforming, deflecting, humping, kinking, leaning, inflecting, spiralling, spiraling, distorting, cambering, diverging, skewing, inclining, wavering, whipping … more

crookened

simple past tense and past participle of crooken

crookening

present participle of crooken

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