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crookedly

/krook-id for 1-4, 6; krookt for 5/US // ˈkrʊk ɪd for 1-4, 6; krʊkt for 5 //UK // (ˈkrʊkɪd) //

歪曲地,歪斜地,歪歪扭扭地,弯曲地

Related Words

curving弯曲的,弯弯曲曲,弯曲,曲线meandering蜿蜒曲折,弯弯曲曲的,弯弯曲曲,蜿蜒曲折的twisted扭曲的,扭曲,扭曲变形,纠结sinuous蜿蜒曲折的,蜿蜒曲折,蜿蜒的,蜿蜒winding缠绕,绕组,蜿蜒曲折,缠绕的gnarled参差不齐的,虬髯客,参天的树枝,参天的devious狡猾的,奸诈的,邪恶的,狡诈的errant飘忽不定,飘忽不定的,误入歧途,错乱的serpentine蛇形结构,蛇形,蛇形线,蛇形的unscrupulous不良,不良的,不良行为,不择手段deceitful奸诈的,狡猾的,狡诈的,奸诈shady阴暗,阴暗面,阴暗的,阴面dishonest不诚实的,不诚实,不忠实的,不诚信的fraudulent欺诈性的,欺诈性,欺诈,诈骗bowed鞠躬,鞠躬致敬,鞠躬致谢,鞠鞠躬rambling漫无边际,胡言乱语,漫无边际的,漫无目的deformed畸形的,变形的,不成形的,不成样子的deviating偏离的,偏差的,偏离,偏差distorted扭曲的,歪曲的,失真,歪曲hooked上钩的,上钩,上钩了,钩住的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : not straight; bending; curved: a crooked path.
    • : askew; awry: The picture on the wall seems to be crooked.
    • : deformed: a man with a crooked back.
    • : not straightforward; dishonest.
    • : bent and often raised or moved to one side, as a finger or neck.
    • : polygonal: a crooked sixpence.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inaskew
Synonyms
awry糟糕,糟糕的,糟糕的是,拙劣的off-center偏离中心,偏心,偏离中心的,偏心的askance斜视,横眉冷对千夫指,斜眼看,斜眼看人askant询问者,询问,疑问,问讯aslant倾斜度,斜线,倾斜,倾斜的bent弯曲的,弯曲,弯的,弯弯曲曲catawampus斤斤计较,斤斤计较的人,斤斤計較,斤斤学语cockeyed狂妄的,狂妄自大,狂妄自大的,狂妄的人curved弯曲的,弯弯曲曲的,弧形,弧形的knotted打结的,打结,打了结的,打了结lopsided一面倒的,一边倒的,一面倒,一边倒oblique偏斜,偏斜的,倾斜的,歪歪斜斜obliquely斜着说,倾斜地,平行地,斜着走slanted倾斜的,斜的,斜着的,斜面的slanting歪歪斜斜的,歪歪斜斜,倾斜的,倾斜to one side一边,一侧,到一边,到一边去topsy-turveyturned变成,变成了,转身,转向twisted扭曲的,扭曲,扭曲变形,纠结yaw ways偏航方式,偏航方法,偏航途径,偏航的方式zigzag之字形,之字型,之字形的,人字形
as inuntruthfully
Synonyms
mendaciously善意地,善意的谎言,明目张胆地,善意的deceivingly欺骗性地,欺骗性的,欺骗地,欺瞒地deceptively欺骗性地,欺骗性的,欺诈性地,欺骗性falsely谎称,虚假的,虚假,误导性地slyly狡猾地,狡猾的,偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地underhandedly暗地里,偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地,暗暗地里untruly不切实际,不切实际的,不切实际地,毫无道理wrongly错误地,错了,错误的,错
as infalsely
Synonyms
maliciously恶意地,恶意的,恶意,恶毒地basely基本上,基本上是这样,基本上是这样的,基本上是behind one's back背地里,背后,背地里说,背地里的dishonestly不诚实地,不诚实,不诚实的,不忠实地dishonorably不名誉地,不光彩地,不体面地,不光彩的disloyally不忠诚,不忠,不忠心,不忠心地faithlessly忠实地,无意中,无信,无意间falseheartedly虚情假意地,虚情假意,虚伪地,虚情假意的malevolently恶意地,恶毒地,邪恶地,恶意的perfidiously无赖地,无信义地,无耻地,无情地roguishly无赖地,无耻地,无赖的,无赖地说是traitorously叛逆地,叛徒,叛国,叛徒般地treacherously奸诈地,诡诈地,诡谲地,奸诈underhandedly暗地里,偷偷摸摸地,偷偷地,暗暗地里unfaithfully不忠实地,不忠实的,不忠实,不忠实于unscrupulously不择手段地,不择手段,不择手段的,不择手段地进行

Examples

  • Our world would wobble more, our horizons would be crooked, and our shortest paths would be harder to find.

  • It didn’t look crooked or out of place, so I went ahead with my trip and my hiking.

  • He cited “the crooked Democratic machine,” which has been in decline for years.

  • In a town full of Bernini masterpieces, the modest jack-o-lanterns I sculpt—their crooked smiles and woefully off-center eyes—are hailed as true wonders.

  • I turned around and he grinned at me, his teeth as crooked as mine.

  • He and the others in the Circle of Trust want crooked judges ditched and the notoriously corrupt police reformed.

  • And there was an underlying compassion for each character, no matter how crooked or misguided or totally bananas.

  • Smiling on the red carpet, Gaga showed off a set of oversized rotten dentures, featuring "metallic gums and crooked teeth."

  • The economy melts down because of something a bunch of crooked bankers do.

  • A person, Kant tells us, is crooked timber from which no straight thing can be made.

  • They come to a halt suddenly, before a little huddling figure, with its face hidden in its arms, crouched beside a crooked rail.

  • She wore an old poke bonnet and carried a crooked stick, and there seemed to be a hump upon her back.

  • Amy, who was strong and quick, reached over the gunwale of the canoe and seized upon the crooked figure.

  • Sometimes they would clamp a crooked stick between a grooved piece of sandstone and a flat bone.

  • It may be a mere dialectal form of 'crooked,' or it may be miswritten for kroked, the usual old spelling.

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