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crooked

crook.ed \'kru.k-*d\ aj 1: having or marked by a crook or curve : BENT  2: 
   DISHONEST aightforward. CROOKED implies having curves, bends, or twists and 
   suggests cheating or fraudulence; DEVIOUS implies a straying from the 
   direct path and may suggest slippery evasiveness or a delaying or deceptive 
   circuitousness; OBLIQUE implies departure from a perpendicular or 
   horizontal direction and may suggest indirection or lack of perfect 
   straightforwardness - crook.ed.ly av SYN syn CROOKED, DEVIOUS, OBLIQUE mean 
   not straight or str