Crooked vs. Crook: What's the Difference?
Crooked and Crook Definitions
Crooked
Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.
Crook
An implement or tool, such as a bishop's crosier or a shepherd's staff, with a bent or curved part.
Crooked
At an irregular or improper angle; askew
Your necktie is crooked.
Crook
A part that is curved or bent like a hook.
Crooked
(Informal) Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.
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Crook
A curve or bend; a turn
A crook in the path.
Crooked
Simple past tense and past participle of crook
Crook
(Informal) One who makes a living by dishonest methods.
Crooked
Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill.
Crook
To make a crook in; bend
Crooked an arm around the package.
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Crooked
Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?
Crook
To bend or curve.
Crooked
(figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.
Crook
Out of order; faulty.
Crooked
Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.
Crook
Not well; ill.
Crooked
Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.
Crook
Of poor quality; inferior.
Crooked
False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
Crook
Not honest; crooked.
Crooked
Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned;
Crooked country roads
Crooked teeth
Crook
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
Crooked
Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Crook
A bending of the knee; a genuflection.
Crooked
Irregular in shape or outline;
Asymmetrical features
A dress with an crooked hemline
Crook
A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).
The crook of a cane
Crooked
Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect;
A little oldish misshapen stooping woman
Crook
(obsolete) A lock or curl of hair.
Crook
(obsolete) A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.
Crook
A specialized staff with a semi-circular bend (a "hook") at one end used by shepherds to control their herds.
Crook
A bishop's standard staff of office.
Crook
An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.
Crook
A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.
Crook
A pothook.
Crook
(music) A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Crook
(transitive) To bend, or form into a hook.
He crooked his finger toward me.
Crook
(intransitive) To become bent or hooked.
Crook
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
Crook
Bad, unsatisfactory, not up to standard.
That work you did on my car is crook, mate.
Not turning up for training was pretty crook.
Crook
Ill, sick.
I′m feeling a bit crook.
Crook
Annoyed, angry; upset.
Be crook at/about; go crook at
Crook
A bend, turn, or curve; curvature; flexure.
Through lanes, and crooks, and darkness.
Crook
Any implement having a bent or crooked end.
He left his crook, he left his flocks.
Crook
A pothook.
Crook
An artifice; trick; tricky device; subterfuge.
For all yuor brags, hooks, and crooks.
Crook
A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.
Crook
A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc.
Crook
To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
Crook
To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.
There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.
What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
Crook
To bend; to curve; to wind; to have a curvature.
Their shoes and pattens are snouted, and piked more than a finger long, crooking upwards.
Crook
Someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime
Crook
A circular segment of a curve;
A bend in the road
A crook in the path
Crook
A long staff with one end being hook shaped
Crook
Bend or cause to bend;
He crooked his index finger
The road curved sharply
