Crook"ed (kr??k"?d), a.
1.
Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
"
Crooked paths."
Locke.
he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.
Shak.
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.
Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.]
Barlett.
© Webster 1913.