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    crooked


    1. “My son, if you receive my words, and store my commands within you, inclining your ear to wisdom, and applying your mind to reason; if you appeal to intelligence, and lift up your voice to reason; if you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures – then will you understand reverence for the Lord, and will discover the knowledge of God; for the Lord gives wisdom, out of His mouth comes knowledge and reason; He has help in store for the upright, He is a shield to those who walk honestly; He guards the paths of justice, and protects the way of His pious ones; then will you understand rectitude and justice, and will keep to every good course; for when wisdom finds a welcome within you, and knowledge becomes a pleasure to you, discretion will watch over you, reason will guard you – saving you from the way of evil men, from men who use perverse speech; who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in ways of darkness; who delight in doing evil, exult in wanton wickedness’ who are crooked in all their ways, and tortuous in their paths – saving you from the wife of another, from the adulteress who plies you with smooth words, who forsakes the companion of her youth, and forgets her pledge to God; for her paths lead down to death, and her tracks descend to the Shades; none who go to her come back again, or reach the paths of life – helping you to walk in the way of good men, and to keep to the paths of the righteous; for the upright will live in the land, and the honest will remain in it; while the wicked will be cut off from the land, and the faithless will be rooted out of it


    2. The other man was similar, but all his hair and beard was white, but wavy, his skin not so smooth and his nose a little crooked, but his smile went to his jolly eyes


    3. “Look at him”, she said, choking back tears, “his teeth are all crooked and those glasses, that moustache… what a minger!”


    4. He raised his crooked arms out wide to encompass the world


    5. crooked and those glasses, that moustache… what a minger!”


    6. 15 That which is crooked can’t be


    7. crooked? 14 In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yes,


    8. She meant to give him a little shove on the arm but her languidity level was so high she missed and set herself on a giggling crooked course between the hedge flowers


    9. ’ I smile a rather crooked smile as the woman puts down the tray she is carrying and unloads plates


    10. Knume saw it was time to move, so, with Larneh at the harness he waved his crooked fingers forward and shouted, “Off then you critters, give a heave there, ON TO HAZORPEAN!”

    11. Ah," said he at once, "that rose is spoiled! And look, this one is quite crooked! After all, these roses are very ugly! They are just like the box they are planted in!" And then he gave the box a good kick with his foot, and pulled both the roses up


    12. The boy had crooked eyebrows colored orange like his short cropped hair


    13. "Well, what have we here?" the guard said, looking them over past a crooked nose


    14. My lord," the crooked nosed guardsman said, laughing


    15. "Forgive me, X'ander," the guard said, his crooked nose pointing to the earth


    16. ” I crooked my smile at her


    17. “Buh…what?” Brynjolf stammered, one eyebrow sharply raised and his normally level mouth a tad crooked from confusion and drink


    18. "I have to admit, I knew you wouldn’t be able to shoot me, but for a second there you almost made me question my own judgment," Arkaneh said with a crooked smile, his cold voice now matched his nature


    19. ” Clodius assented with a crooked grin


    20. She came back to the boy and crooked her finger

    21. And, as she is standing there, a crooked smile comes to her face and a little water “puddles up” inside her lower eyelids


    22. I looked down to see a gray cat with a raised, crooked tail, Smoky, a very scrawny, bedraggled Smoky, still rubbing against my legs


    23. are crooked, of course, but what the people who love the U


    24. Do you know a crooked engraver who will help?”


    25. She nudged a slightly crooked fork into alignment with the neighboring utensils


    26. Soaked, his feathers pointing away from his shivering body like crooked needles, he found himself standing between the lettuce and the carrots


    27. Shall I not repay?! Shall I not set all these crooked paths straight?! For the heart of this people is very corrupt! They remain lost in their own deceptions!


    28. When they are still able to step easily off the crooked path


    29. Many times a client lost his life savings because he met a crooked businessman at an Embassy party and trusted him because of that


    30. Standing up he crooked a finger at me and I dutifully followed him down the garden path to his old shed

    31. Crooked agents often stole funds intended for the Dakota, or supplied spoiled food and shoddy equipment


    32. She relented to the pressure of a finger crooked below her chin allowing her face to be lifted


    33. The man raised my face towards his with a crooked finger


    34. Could it be that this crooked cop who silently stared at her and sold cocaine was involved somehow with Gordon Edward and Leon? Maybe he was there to be a silent threat to her to keep her mouth shut about such things


    35. The moment his door opened and there stood Truman, greeting her with his own, original, crooked smile, she began to feel better


    36. He began with the offer of a trade: he’d give Edgar the goods on a crooked politician in exchange for his freedom


    37. ” She turned, lifting her bent knee onto the seat, rested an elbow upon it and lowered her chin to her hand, looking directly at him while thoughtfully stroking a crooked finger over her lip


    38. Coonowrin was his son, with his crooked neck, and Beerwah his wife, the tallest mountain


    39. “Much better than I did,” she answered, as a crooked smile caused one side of her mouth to lift


    40. ‘Do we have guests?’ said Russell, approaching the aliens and hiding his own fear behind a crooked smile

    41. Instead of one or the other, she only managed a crooked grimace which was either or and stood next to the table with her hand on the map


    42. I thought about what he and his partner had done to me in that graveyard, and I thought about all of the rehab I went through and all of the pain these two crooked ass bastards had caused me, then I squeezed the trigger


    43. Jesus on a very crooked and dirty trail that led up the side of


    44. Her teeth are straight on top and crooked on the bottom


    45. Another aspect is the reliability of the collected and analyzed data, as well as the result of the evaluation because any executed activity under XUSING Project’s dominion has the warranty that its executioners will be qualified to execute its unique task, without there to be crooked deal, job occult or slave


    46. It emerges crooked and small


    47. Tris stands inside the car, wearing a small, crooked smile


    48. The pictures on the walls were crooked; the rugs were awry; the vases were full of faded flowers; the dust lay in heaps--literally in heaps


    49. I run a crooked path so it’s harder to hit me, and then dive around the corner


    50. 13 By his spirit he has garnished the heavens; his hand has formed the crooked serpent














































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    Synonyms for "crooked"

    crooked hunched round-backed round-shouldered stooped stooping asymmetrical corrupt distorted askew contorted awry gnarled crippled disfigured bent hooked bending tortuous curved bowed serpentine machiavellian crafty sinister deceitful unfaithful

    "crooked" definitions

    having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned


    not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive


    irregular in shape or outline


    having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect