1. Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
   "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
    
2. [informal] Tending to act dishonestly in exchange for money or other personal gain
   "The crooked politician accepted bribes";
   - corrupt, bent [Brit, informal]
    
3. Irregular in shape or outline
   "a dress with a crooked hemline";
   - asymmetrical
    
4. Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
   "a little oldish misshapen crooked woman";
   - hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping

1. Bend or cause to bend
   "He crooked his index finger";
   - curve

Derived forms: crookeder, crookedest

See also: akimbo, anfractuous, aquiline, askew, awry, cockeyed [informal], coiled, configuration, conformation, contorted, contour, deflective, dishonest, dishonorable [US], dishonourable [Brit, Cdn], form, geniculate, gnarled, gnarly, honestness, honesty, hooked, illegitimate, illicit, indirect, irregular, knobbed, knotted, knotty, lopsided, malposed, outlaw, outlawed, reflexed, refractive, shape, skew-whiff [Brit, informal], sneaky, squiggly, tortuous, twisty, underhand, underhanded, unerect, unlawful, voluminous, warped, windblown, winding, windy[2], wonky [informal], writhed, writhen [archaic], wry, zigzag, zig-zag

Type of: bend, flex

Antonym: straight

Encyclopedia: Crooked