What is "crooked"

Usage examples of "crooked".

The roads in the Ardennes were as narrow and crooked as the rivers, full of hairpin curves and steep grades.

Considering the crooked sword, the Graeaean subterfuge, the rear-view approaches to Medusa and Cetus, the far-darting Hermean sandals, even the trajectory of the discus that killed Acrisius, would it be fair to generalize that dodge and indirection were my conscious tactics, and, if so, were they characterological or by Athenian directive?

Even on the clearest night the keep looked haunted, collecting pockets of fog and throwing crooked shadows across the grounds.

A glance at the map will show that a force moving from this point in conjunction with another from Lydenburg might form the two crooked claws of a crab to enclose a great space of country, in which smaller columns might collect whatever was to be found.

Frequently there are enough crooked or conky trees to serve the purpose.

Vettius, crooked a finger toward Dama and nodded in the direction of the garden behind the office.

Not until he had ridden outward from the circle did he see trees overthrown, their roots pointing accusingly like crooked fingers at the sky from which their deathblows had come.

General Gullick crooked a finger and Quinn hastened over to stand with him behind another operator whose screen showed a live satellite downlink, also with thermal imaging.

So, indeed, if those memoirs were in fact produced, Ecu would be fascinated by how many ways Kenna could find to avoid the simple fact that he was, and had been since he was a baby ballot-box-stuffer, Crooked to the Gunwales.

At Erivan, the largest city in Russian Armenia, the traveller will find fairly good accommodation, but the place is dull enough, whether in the Persian quarter, where crooked lanes are lined with high walls, that mask the dwellings within like the defences of a fortress, or in the broad streets and unpaved quarter laid out by the Russians since their occupation of the province in 1829, even though enlivened by a boulevard and gardens fair to look upon.

And in their walk this blinde man they met, Crooked and old, with eyen fast y-shet.

And then she burst into tears and held her lemonade so crooked it was like spilling on the Foosball table.

Canute Freeboard looked up and down the crooked length of Leptophlebo Street.

He hung the goatsfoot back on his belt and set a quarrel on the string, and Brandark gave him a crooked smile.

It was only when the crooked, taloned fingers of Karsh, the leader of the gobbes, closed in deliberate torment on his shoulder that he looked up.