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Antonyms for crooked
ˈkrʊk ɪd for 1-4, 6 ; krʊkt for 5crooked
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Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms
crooked
Antonyms:
straight, linear, direct, honest, straightforwardSynonyms:
bent, incurved, angular, deformed, bowed, disfigured, turned, curved, awry, anfractuous, tortuous, underhanded
Princeton's WordNet
crookedadjective
having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
"crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
Antonyms:
erect, transparent, untwisted, guileless, aboveboard, straightarrow(a), straightforward, unbent, upright, straight, aligned, square, regular, verticalSynonyms:
hunched, round-backed, asymmetrical, corrupt, stooped, stooping, round-shoulderedcrooked, corruptadjective
not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
Antonyms:
untwisted, upright, erect, guileless, vertical, unbent, straightarrow(a), straight, regular, aboveboard, straightforward, transparent, aligned, squareSynonyms:
round-backed, stooping, tainted, round-shouldered, corrupt, asymmetrical, corrupted, hunched, stoopedasymmetrical, crookedadjective
irregular in shape or outline
"asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline"
Antonyms:
guileless, straightarrow(a), vertical, aligned, transparent, untwisted, square, upright, straightforward, straight, aboveboard, erect, regular, unbentSynonyms:
round-backed, stooping, asymmetric, round-shouldered, corrupt, asymmetrical, hunched, stoopedhunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crookedadjective
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect
"a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
Antonyms:
straightarrow(a), unbent, square, straight, upright, untwisted, aboveboard, vertical, aligned, guileless, transparent, erect, regular, straightforwardSynonyms:
round-backed, stooping, round-shouldered, corrupt, asymmetrical, hunched, stooped
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
crookedadjective
Synonyms:
twisted, bent, devious, deformed, tortuous, sinuous, winding, flexuous, curved, curvilinear, spiral, labyrinthial, distorted, awry, askew, wry, dishonest, fraudulent, unscrupulous, knavish
How to use crooked in a sentence?
The more weakness the more falsehood; strength goes straight: every cannon ball that has in it hollows and holes goes crooked.
A lot of PACs are crooked business, those PACs control the candidates. They totally control. (Ben) Carson is controlled by his PAC. (Jeb) Bush is controlled by his PAC. (Marco) Rubio is controlled by his PAC -- and he needs a lot of water.
I hope it doesn’t involve violence. I hope it doesn’t. I’m not suggesting that, i hope it doesn’t involve violence, and I don’t think it will. But I will say this, it’s a rigged system, it’s a crooked system. It’s 100 percent corrupt.
Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven:
And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: that each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
I was so disgusted, I wrote a review on several sites, including Yelp, ZocDoc and Health Grades, very poor and crooked business practice.
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