Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Crooked

Crooked (kr??k"?d) , adjective

1.
Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Crooked paths. — Locke
he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere. — Shakespeare
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.
Collocations (1)
Crooked whisky , whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, United States] — Barlett