Dictionary entry

Crooked

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Crook″ed (kr??k″?d), a. 1. Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. “Crooked paths.” Locke.

he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.

Shak.

2. Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.

They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Deut. xxxii. 5.

3. False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. Barlett.