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Webster 1913 Edition
Crooked
Crook′ed
(kr??k′?d)
, Adj.
1.
Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
“Crooked paths.” Locke.
he is deformed,
crooked
, old, and sere. Shakespeare
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
dealingsCrooked whisky
, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded.
[Slang, U.S.]
Barlett.
Webster 1828 Edition
Crooked
CROOKED
,pp.
1.
Bent; curved; curving; winding.2.
Winding in moral conduct; devious; froward; perverse; going out of the path of rectitude; given to obliquity or wandering from duty.They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deuteronomy 32.