Crooked
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Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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Crooked Quotations
God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.
Friedrich Nietzsche
I was more independent than any farmer in Concord, for I was not anchored to a house or farm, but could follow the bent of my genius, which is a very crooked one, every moment.
Henry David Thoreau
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Henry David Thoreau
As different streams having different sources all mingle their waters in the sea, so different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to God.
Swami Vivekananda
What by a straight path cannot be reached by crooked ways is never won.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.
Chanakya
No one ever died from sleeping in an unmade bed. I have known mothers who remake the bed after their children do it because there is wrinkle in the spread or the blanket is on crooked. This is sick.
Erma Bombeck
You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.
W. C. Fields
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
Crooked Translations
crooked in French is tortu
crooked in German is krumm
crooked in Italian is storto
crooked in Latin is pandus, curvus
crooked in Spanish is curvo, pando
crooked in Swedish is krokig, ohederlig
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