crooked
part of speech
adjective (crooked, more crooked, most crooked); pronounced «KROOK-id»
meaning for a pupil
1) Crooked means not straight; bent, twisted or uneven. tree →
2) A crooked person is dishonest and cheats people. tree →
sense in the lessons
In everyday life it describes teeth, pictures on a wall, lines, roads and smiles. In maths, a crooked line is not a straight line, so use a ruler. In stories and nursery rhymes («There was a crooked man») it paints a strange or bent shape; it can also mean a cheating villain. Phrases: «a crooked smile», «crooked teeth», «hanging crooked».
examples
- The picture is hanging crooked on the wall. tree →
- Use a ruler so your lines are not crooked. tree →
- He has a crooked tooth at the front. tree →
- She gave a crooked smile. tree →
- The path was narrow and crooked. tree →
- The crooked shopkeeper sold fake watches. tree →
- There was a crooked man who walked a crooked mile. tree →
- And look, this one is quite crooked! tree →
note
Pronounced with two syllables, «crook-ed», not like «looked». The verb «crook» (to bend a finger) is rare; «crook» as a noun means a criminal. Opposite: «straight». In geometry a straight line has no bends; a crooked path is longer than the straight line between the same two points.
In the corpora
- A crooked nose is checked after a few days, when the swelling has gone down.
- No; His children's is the blemish; a generation crooked and perverse.
- With the pure Thou dost show myself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.
- With the pure Thou dost show Thyself pure; and with the crooked Thou dost show Thyself subtle.
- I will set no base thing before mine eyes; I hate the doing of things crooked; it shall not cleave unto me.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «crooked» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.