Synonyms of the word

crooked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of crook.
• adj. Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
• adj. Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
• adj. (figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.

akimbo

• adj. With a crook or bend; with the hand on the hip and elbow turned outward.
• adv. Into, in, or of the position where the arms are akimbo.

anfractuous

• adj. sinuous, twisty, winding.
• adj. craggy, rugged, coarse, rough, uneven.

aquiline

• adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of eagles; resembling that of an eagle.

askew

• adj. Turned or twisted to one side.
• adj. (figuratively) Untoward, unfavourable.
• adv. Tilted to one side.

asymmetrical

• adj. Not symmetrical.
• adj. (of a question) Presenting a false dilemma, or a choice between two things which are not opposites.

awry

• adv. Obliquely, crookedly; askew.
• adv. Perversely, improperly.
• adj. Turned or twisted toward one side; crooked, distorted, out of place.
• adj. Wrong or distorted; perverse, amiss.

bending

• v. present participle of bend.
• n. A motion or action that bends.

bent

• v. simple past tense and past participle of bend.
• adj. (Of something that is usually straight) folded, dented.
• adj. (derogatory, colloquial, chiefly Britain) Homosexual.
• adj. Determined or insistent.
• adj. Of a person, leading a life of crime.
• adj. (slang, soccer) inaccurate at shooting.
• adj. (colloquial, chiefly US) Suffering from the bends.
• adj. (slang) High from using both marijuana and alcohol.
• n. An inclination or talent.
• n. A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
• n. The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
• n. A declivity or slope, as of a hill.
• n. Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
• n. (carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure.
• n. Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
• n. Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.
• n. A grassy area, grassland.

cockeyed

• adj. (US) Having both eyes oriented inward.
• adj. (US) Crooked or askew.
• adj. (US, informal) Absurd, silly, or stupid; usually used in reference to ideas rather than people.
• adj. Drunk.

coiled

• v. simple past tense and past participle of coil.
• adj. In the form of coils; having coils.
• adj. Prepared and poised to act, like a snake that has coiled its lower body so it can strike.

contorted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of contort.

corrupt

• adj. In a depraved state; debased; perverted; morally degenerate; weak in morals.
• adj. Abounding in errors; not genuine or correct; in an invalid state.
• adj. In a putrid state; spoiled; tainted; vitiated; unsound.
• v. (transitive) To make corrupt; to change from good to bad; to draw away from the right path; to deprave;…
• v. (intransitive) To become putrid or tainted; to putrefy; to rot.
• v. To debase or render impure by alterations or innovations; to falsify.
• v. To waste, spoil, or consume; to make worthless.

deflective

• adj. capable of causing deflection.

dishonest

• adj. Not honest.
• adj. Interfering with honesty.
• adj. (obsolete) Dishonourable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd.
• adj. (obsolete) Dishonoured; disgraced; disfigured.

dishonorable

• adj. Without honor, or causing dishonor.
• adj. Lacking respect or ethical principles.

distorted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of distort.

geniculate

• adj. Bent abruptly, with the structure of a knee.
• adj. Having kneelike joints; able to bend at an abrupt angle.
• v. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To form joints or knots on.

gnarled

• adj. Knotty and misshapen.
• adj. Made rough by age or hard work.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 1).
• v. simple past tense and past participle of gnarl (Etymology 2).

gnarly

• adj. Having or characterized by gnarls; gnarled.
• adj. (slang) Excellent; attractive.
• adj. (slang, US) Dangerous; difficult.
• adj. (slang, US) Unpleasant, awful, ugly.

hooked

• v. simple past tense and past participle of hook.
• adj. Having a sharp curve at the end; resembling a hook.
• adj. Addicted; unable to resist or cease doing.

hunched

• v. simple past tense and past participle of hunch.

indirect

• adj. Not direct; roundabout; deceiving; setting a trap; confusing.

irregular

• adj. Nonstandard; not conforming to rules or expectations.
• adj. Of a surface, rough.
• adj. Without symmetry, regularity, or uniformity.
• adj. (geometry, of a polygon) Not regular; having sides that are not equal or angles that are not equal.
• adj. (geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are not all regular polygons (or are not equally inclined to each…
• n. A soldier who is not a member of an official military force and, often, does not follow regular army tactics.
• n. One who does not regularly attend a venue.

knobbed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of knob.
• adj. Having a knob or knobs.

knotted

• adj. full of knots, knotty.
• adj. tied in knots.
• adj. tangled, tangly, knotty, entangled, matted, snarled, unkempt, or uncombed.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of knot.

knotty

• adj. Full of knots.
• adj. Complicated or tricky; complex; difficult.

lopsided

• adj. Not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other.

reflexed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of reflex.
• adj. turned backwards.

refractive

• adj. Describing that which refracts.

round-shouldered

• adj. Having a rounded upper back, and shoulders that bend forward.

skew-whiff

• adj. (Britain, Australia, colloquial) Askew; lopsided, not straight.

sneaky

• adj. Difficult to catch due to constantly outwitting the adversaries.
• adj. Dishonest; deceitful.

squiggly

• adj. (informal) Not straight; wavy.
• n. (computing, informal) A wavy underline used to indicate an error in text or code.

stooped

• v. simple past tense and past participle of stoop.
• adj. in a bent bodily position, hunched.

stooping

• adj. Bending the body forward; yielding; submitting; condescending; inclining.
• v. present participle of stoop.
• n. The act of one who stoops.

tortuous

• adj. Twisted; having many turns; convoluted.
• adj. (obsolete) injurious; tortious.
• adj. (astrology) oblique; applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) that ascend most…

twisted

• v. simple past tense and past participle of twist.
• adj. Contorted.
• adj. Wound spirally.
• adj. Mentally disturbed or unsound.
• adj. Under the influence of multiple intoxicants, usually alcohol and marijuana.

twisting

• v. present participle of twist.
• n. gerund of twist.
• adj. Having many twists.

twisty

• adj. that twists.
• adj. curly.
• n. Something that is twisty, such as a road.
• n. A strand of hair twisted together in a braid-like fashion.

underhand

• adj. secret; clandestine.
• adj. (by extension) dishonest and sneaky; done in a secret or sly manner.
• adj. (in various ball games, of a ball) thrown (etc.) with the hand brought forward and up from below.
• adv. with an underhand movement.
• adv. in a sly, sneaky or secret manner.
• v. To toss or lob with an underhand movement.
• v. To trick, deceive or gull.
• v. (mining) To excavate downward in successive steps or horizontal slices while positioned above on unbroken…
• n. (textiles) The lower of two hands, the hand under the work.

underhanded

• adj. Done by moving the hand (and arm) from below.
• adj. Sly, dishonest, corrupt, cheating.
• adj. Insincere; sarcastic.
• adj. Secret; surreptitious.
• adj. Understaffed.
• adv. In an underhanded manner.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of underhand.
• n. Devious people, collectively.

unlawful

• adj. Prohibited; not permitted by law (either civil or criminal law; see illegal).

voluminous

• adj. Of or pertaining to volume or volumes.
• adj. Consisting of many folds, coils, or convolutions.
• adj. Of great volume, or bulk; large.
• adj. Having written much, or produced many volumes; copious; diffuse.

warped

• adj. Distorted by warping; twisted out of shape.
• adj. (figuratively) Of a person's mind, attitudes, etc, perverse, strange, aberrant or deviant.
• v. simple past tense and past participle of warp.

windblown

• adj. (of a tree) growing in a distorted shape produced by the prevailing winds.
• adj. (of seeds, leaves etc) dispersed by the wind.
• adj. (of a person) having disheveled hair blown about by the wind.

winding

• v. present participle of wind.
• n. something wound around something else.
• n. the manner in which something is wound.
• n. one complete turn of something wound.
• n. (electrical) a length of wire wound around the core of an electrical transformer.
• adj. twisting, turning or sinuous.
• adj. spiral or helical.
• v. present participle of wind.
• n. the act or process of winding (turning around).

wonky

• adj. Lopsided, misaligned or off-centre.
• adj. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) Feeble, shaky or rickety.
• adj. (computing, especially Usenet) Suffering from intermittent bugs; broken.
• adj. Generally incorrect.
• n. A subgenre of electronic music employing unstable rhythms, complex time signatures, and mid-range synths.
• adj. Technically worded, in the style of jargon.

writhed

• v. simple past tense and past participle of writhe.

writhen

• v. (archaic) past participle of writhe.
• adj. (archaic) Twisted, contorted.
• adj. (archaic) Made or shaped by intertwining; plaited.

wry

• adj. Turned away, contorted (of the face or body).
• adj. Dryly humorous; sardonic or bitterly ironic.
• adj. Twisted, bent, crooked.
• adj. Deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place.
• v. (obsolete, intransitive) To turn (away); to swerve or deviate.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To divert; to cause to turn away.
• v. (transitive) To twist or contort (the body, face, etc.).
• v. (transitive, obsolete) To cover; clothe; cover up; cloak; hide.

zigzag

• n. a line or path that proceeds by sharp turns in alternating directions.
• n. one of such sharp turns.
• adj. Moving in, or having a zigzag.
• v. To move or to twist in a zigzag manner.
• adv. in a zigzag manner or pattern.