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# crooked

«crooked» in Mova's school dictionary: **not straight; bent, twisted or uneven** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (crooked, more crooked, most crooked); pronounced «KROOK-id»

### meaning for a pupil

1) Crooked means not straight; bent, twisted or uneven. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#m1)

2) A crooked person is dishonest and cheats people. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In everyday life it describes teeth, pictures on a wall, lines, roads and smiles. In maths, a crooked line is not a straight line, so use a ruler. In stories and nursery rhymes («There was a crooked man») it paints a strange or bent shape; it can also mean a cheating villain. Phrases: «a crooked smile», «crooked teeth», «hanging crooked».

### examples

- The picture is hanging crooked on the wall. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x1)
- Use a ruler so your lines are not crooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x2)
- He has a crooked tooth at the front. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x3)
- She gave a crooked smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x4)
- The path was narrow and crooked. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x5)
- The crooked shopkeeper sold fake watches. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x6)
- There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x7)
- And look, this one is quite crooked! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/#x8)

### note

Pronounced with two syllables, «crook-ed», not like «looked». The verb «crook» (to bend a finger) is rare; «crook» as a noun means a criminal. Opposite: «straight». In geometry a straight line has no bends; a crooked path is longer than the straight line between the same two points.

### In the corpora

- [A crooked nose is checked after a few days, when the swelling has gone down.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/medicine/5-nosebleeds-and-bumps-on-the-head/16/)
- [No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/jps/DEU.890/)
- [With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/2SA.686/)
- [With the pure Thou dost show Thyself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.237/)
- [I will set no base thing before mine eyes; I hate the doing of things crooked; it shall not cleave unto me.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1765/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «crooked» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/crooked/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.