What is "crookedly"

Usage examples of "crookedly".

Yossarian bent away from the bombsight crookedly to watch the indicator on his left.

He grinned back crookedly, feeling the woman-generated guilt spreading all through him like the slow groping tentacles of a fungus.

I was doing it, rolling crookedly toward her ap-plause, whooping and laughing and traveling mac closed my eyes, amazed and horrified at my own momentum.

An opaque pantihose seam ran crookedly down the cleft between her cheeks, and below, the narrow satin strip of the panties covered some of her best features.

There was a box of paints on the bass end, with a pastepot full of painty water balanced crookedly among the black notes.

There was a film of scum on the water in the crookedly balanced pastepot at the other end.

With a jerk of her elbow, Hannah thrust Broderick aside, and because Jimmy was still holding one arm she leant crookedly over the table towards Hughie, crying.

He had accidentally stumbled upon the rattraps, two of which were attached crookedly to his sneakers.

Like it or not, the Warren of Shadow is now human-aspected…' he smiled crookedly, 'and it well suits our natures.

Wrapped in a blue and yellow plastic bag from the SeaTac dutyfree, crookedly sealed with wrinkled lengths of slick brown tape.

The curtains consisted of old cotton dish towels, with a brass rod threaded through one end, hanging crookedly enough to provide a clear view of Billy Polo and the woman he was talking to.

Benduka is the bent-sideways girl who walks slowly, but ben-duka is also the name of a fast-flying bird, the swallow with curved wings who darts crookedly quick through trees near the river.

The man walked crookedly, and rubbed his eyes, as if he had only just been awakened.

It passed by the three small houses that crowded close to the highway, between their doors and the boundary wall of the abbey, reached the small plateau by the mill, where a wooden bridge crossed the head-race, and thence wandered on as a mere footpath in rough meadow grass by the edge of the water, where several pollarded willows leaned crookedly from the high bank.

To see an ornament set crookedly, or a speck of dust, or a slight disarray in one's attire, was torture to the little man until he could ease his feelings by remedying the matter.