crook | (noun) a long staff with one end being hook shaped | Synonyms: shepherd's crook |
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(noun) someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime | Synonyms: criminal, felon, malefactor, outlaw |
(noun) a circular segment of a curve | Synonyms: bend, turn, twist |
(verb) bend or cause to bend | Synonyms: curve |
crookback | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookbacked, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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(noun) a person whose back is hunched because of abnormal curvature of the upper spine | Synonyms: humpback, hunchback |
crookbacked | (adjective) characteristic of or suffering from kyphosis, an abnormality of the vertebral column | Synonyms: crookback, gibbous, humpbacked, humped, hunchbacked, kyphotic |
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crooked | (adjective) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned | - |
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(adjective) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive | Synonyms: corrupt |
(adjective) irregular in shape or outline | Synonyms: asymmetrical |
(adjective) having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect | Synonyms: hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping |
crookedly | (adverb) in a crooked lopsided manner | Synonyms: lopsidedly |
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crookedness | (noun) having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: deviousness |
(noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, torsion, tortuosity, tortuousness |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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croon | (verb) sing softly | - |
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crooner | (noun) a singer of popular ballads | Synonyms: balladeer |
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crooning | (noun) the act of singing popular songs in a sentimental manner | - |
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(noun) singing in a soft low tone | - |