Synonyms for crookedly
| Grammar : Adj, adv |
| Spell : krook-id for 1–4, 6; krookt for 5 |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈkrʊk ɪd for 1–4, 6; krʊkt for 5 |
Top 10 synonyms for crookedly Other synonyms for the word crookedly
- buckled
- catawampus
- cockeyed
- crookedly
- curved
- deceivingly
- deceptively
- dishonestly
- dishonorably
- disloyally
- faithlessly
- falseheartedly
- falsely
- knotted
- lopsided
- malevolently
- oblique
- obliquely
- perfidiously
- roguishly
- slanted
- slanting
- slyly
- to one side
- topsy-turvey
- traitorously
- treacherously
- turned
- twisted
- underhandedly
- unfaithfully
- unscrupulously
- untruly
- wrongly
- yaw ways
- zigzag
Définition of crookedly
- As in askew : adj crooked
- As in untruthfully : adv dishonestly
- As in falsely : adv deceitfully
- All he cares for is the excitement of big things he can get at crookedly.
- Extract from : « The La Chance Mine Mystery » by Susan Carleton Jones
- “They get life so crookedly from servants and such,” he added.
- Extract from : « The Cricket » by Marjorie Cooke
- I never saw a cord of wood piled so crookedly before in my life.
- Extract from : « Peggy Owen Patriot » by Lucy Foster Madison
- I wonder that, when the twig is so ruthlessly and persistently bent, the tree should reach up ever so crookedly towards heaven.
- Extract from : « A New Atmosphere » by Gail Hamilton
- These were mainly the resolutions to which his long meditation had now crookedly and clumsily conducted him.
- Extract from : « Hide and Seek » by Wilkie Collins
- Here belated sparrows drank or splashed their dusty feathers, and the parrot watched them crookedly.
- Extract from : « Love Stories » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Denis stepped down from the bench; tied insecurely and crookedly to the tentpole, the Union Jack hung limp on the windless air.
- Extract from : « Crome Yellow » by Aldous Huxley
- Notice the weird expression of these trees with their crookedly bent tops, one side of each trunk being almost devoid of branches.
- Extract from : « Cornell Nature-Study Leaflets » by Various
- Suspended across the gateway hung an old white sheet, with 'Many happy returns,' in red letters, sewn on crookedly.
- Extract from : « Anxious Audrey » by Mabel Quiller-Couch
- Now it sat most crookedly upon him and was cut in many places so that it but barely hung upon his shoulders.
- Extract from : « In the Court of King Arthur » by Samuel Lowe
Antonyms for crookedly
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