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. [Slang, U.S.]

Barlett.

 

© Webster 1913.