Adjective : a crooked path. ,The picture on the wall seems to be crooked. ,a man with a crooked back. ,a crooked sixpence. From Dictionary.com.
He smiled crookedly and gave her chin a mock cuff. From Wordnik.com. [A Baby For Emily]
She smiles crookedly and lies back against her pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference
The HOUSE OF DEMOCRACY banner hangs crookedly, deflated. From Wordnik.com. [Is This Something?] Reference
She smiles crookedly and lies back against her pillow. From Wordnik.com. [Old clothes, bread, cream and butter.] Reference
He smiled crookedly at his own reflection in the mirror. From Wordnik.com. [Hail to the Chief] Reference
SILBERMAN: "Flowers aim crookedly for the straight death.". From Wordnik.com. [Steve Silberman's Interview with Robert Hunter from Poetry Flash] Reference
And then he smiled crookedly, so I knew the fight was over. From Wordnik.com. [Eclipse]
“The zoolipt,” she whispered, smiling crookedly at Kirtn. From Wordnik.com. [Dancer's Luck]
She smiled crookedly, and suddenly he understood what it was. From Wordnik.com. [Voice of the Gods]
"Me —" He grinned out of the corner of his mouth, crookedly. From Wordnik.com. [Science Fiction Hall of Fame]
The watcher smiled crookedly behind his fancloth skulker's mask. From Wordnik.com. [A Crown of Swords]
You walk crookedly till a straight path is an abomination to you. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
He looked at her out of the corner of his eye and smiled crookedly. From Wordnik.com. [A Baby For Emily]
A sincere smile that was crookedly boyish and caught Abby off guard. From Wordnik.com. [Shiver]
And when he thought thus the shears cut crookedly right into the bog. From Wordnik.com. [The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 09 Friedrich Hebbel and Otto Ludwig] Reference
He leaned back against the seat, smiled crookedly if not a bit wearily. From Wordnik.com. [Hollywood Husband Contract Wife]
Matching green window boxes hung crookedly beneath the darkened windows. From Wordnik.com. [Touch of Evil] Reference
All he cares for is the excitement of big things he can get at crookedly. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
She turned toward her room, then hesitated as he grinned crookedly at her. From Wordnik.com. [Police Your Planet] Reference
Then we rode on rather crookedly for two more hours, and camped after dark. From Wordnik.com. [Seven Pillars of Wisdom] Reference
He grinned crookedly, leaned back, and spread out his darkly bronzed hands. From Wordnik.com. [The Killing Hour]
"Well, go on, keep us in suspense forever," Magnus said, grinning crookedly. From Wordnik.com. [Music to My Sorrow]
He smiled crookedly and moved around the room, gathering what he would need. From Wordnik.com. [The Last of the Wilds]
There stood an ancient metal mailbox, leaning crookedly in the prairie grass. From Wordnik.com. [Summer storms] Reference
The road wound crookedly up a hill, as it left the streets of the town behind. From Wordnik.com. [The Furnace of Gold] Reference
In the stony wall there was a door hanging crookedly ajar upon one great hinge. From Wordnik.com. [The Fellowship of the Ring]
One of those fins sank, canting the ship crookedly, preventing any new take-off. From Wordnik.com. [Storm Over Warlock] Reference
She glanced over at his entrance, and saw his startlement, and smiled crookedly. From Wordnik.com. [The Outstretched Shadow] Reference
Bartlett smiled crookedly and reluctantly put his four bars back onto their pile. From Wordnik.com. [Noble House]
Get them all collected together on the beach, dive again, dive a little crookedly. From Wordnik.com. [Tour de Force]
I left my crookedly parked car behind me as I went to a restaurant for happy hour. From Wordnik.com. [jfloydking Diary Entry] Reference
He talked vaguely, answered my questions crookedly, wandered into general questions. From Wordnik.com. [The Island of Doctor Moreau] Reference
When I said the name of the band, he smiled crookedly, a peculiar expression in his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [Twilight]
Breathing heavily, the cadet turned, wiped his face, and smiled crookedly at Tom and Roger. From Wordnik.com. [On the Trail of the Space Pirates] Reference
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