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crooked in English:

1. straight


straight hair
She was born with underdeveloped lungs, but eventually a few steroid shots set her straight.
With a high, closed collar, figure-hugging cut, and large slits at either side of a straight skirt, the qipao is unique in its ability to communicate both modesty and sensuousness.
It is characteristic of the fork ball, one of baseball's change-ups, that a ball that flew straight will drop suddenly just before the batter.
Ronpari is a word that designates those whose eyes don't look straight, but in different directions to the left and right, as if they were looking at Paris and London.
Taking into account the time I'd just spent napping, I'm really picking up the sense that this time's exam really won't be straight forward.
In a time-bound society time is seen as linear- in other words as a straight line extending from the past, through the present, to the future.
I was flabbergasted to hear that she died of a drug overdose. She always seemed like such a straight arrow to me.
Go straight, then take the second street to the left and turn immediately again to the right. That will be Karlova Street and then you should keep going straight across Charles Bridge to Mostecka Street and on to Malostranské Square.
Ah, y-yes ... Sorry, Coz. "Hey! You might be my relative but here I'm your senior and a doctor. Keep things straight while you're in the hospital!"
I didn't know what was what. The inside of my head had gone to panic mode and I couldn't get things straight.
Tim produced a perfect alveolar trill for a straight minute. The rest of the Spanish class envied and despised this vulgar display of power.
Just how tiresome was it to argue straight against the phrase "Don't blindly follow America's lead!"

English word "crooked"(straight) occurs in sets:

The adjective - practice

2. Dishonest


Do I look dishonest or what?
What a dishonest fellow!
Many politicians are dishonest.
They're dishonest people, and they'll try to charge you five dollars.
John claimed that the dishonest salesman had tricked him into buying a useless piece of machinery.
He is a thoroughly dishonest character.
He employed dishonest means in his business.
It is our national conviction that politics is a dirty and dishonest pursuit.
Don’t be dishonest about how much money you have spent.
He was not usually a dishonest person, so it was strange that he chose to hide the truth about finding the money.
They admitted that there were dishonest officers in the police force.
He is the most dishonest person I know. I've never heard him tell the truth.
All right, it was dishonest.
The newspapers are calling him a dishonest politician.
I would rather be poor than make money by dishonest means.

3. not in a straight line



4. bent or twisted out of shape or out of place