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crookedly

[krook-id for 1-4, 6; krookt for 5]

crook·ed

[krook-id for 1-4, 6; krookt for 5]
adjective
1.
not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
2.
askew; awry: The picture on the wall seems to be crooked.
3.
deformed: a man with a crooked back.
4.
not straightforward; dishonest.
5.
bent and often raised or moved to one side, as a finger or neck.
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6.
(of a coin) polygonal: a crooked sixpence.
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Origin:
1200–50; Middle English croked; see crook1, -ed2

crook·ed·ly, adverb
crook·ed·ness, noun
un·crook·ed, adjective
un·crook·ed·ly, adverb


1. winding, devious, sinuous, flexuous, tortuous, spiral, twisted. 3. misshapen. 4. unscrupulous, knavish, tricky, fraudulent.

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Crookedly is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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crooked (ˈkrʊkɪd)
 
adj
1.  bent, angled or winding
2.  set at an angle; not straight
3.  deformed or contorted
4.  informal dishonest or illegal
5.  informal (Austral) crooked on hostile or averse to
 
'crookedly
 
adv
 
'crookedness
 
n

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