crooked
/ˈkrʊkɪd/
US pronunciation
American sound/ˈkrʊkɪd/
crooked
- Syllables
- 2 syllables
- Stress
- 1st syllable stress
- Vowel
- Short i vowel
- Ending
- Past ending sound
croo - ked -> crooked
Myanmar meaning
(adj) လိမ်ဖည်သော။ ကောက်ကွေ့သော။ ရွဲ့ သော။ မရိုးဖြောင့် သော။ ကလိမ်ကကျစ်။
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၁။ လိမ်ဖည်သော။ ကောက်ကွေ့သော။ ရွဲ့ သော။ a crooked lane/branch/table. ❍ a crooked smile (ie one in which the mouth slopes down at one side) ❍ You've got your hat on crooked.
၂။ (infml ) မရိုးဖြောင့် သော။ ကလိမ်ကကျစ်။
a crooked businessman/deal ❍ All the officials are crooked. crookedly adv crookedness n [U]
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Synonyms
bent, curved, warped, twisted, agee, anfractuous, angled, angular, asymmetric, awry, bowed, catawampus, circuitous, cockeyed, contorted, corrupt, crafty, criminal, crippled, curving, deceitful, deformed, deviating, devious, disfigured, dishonest, dishonorable, distorted, double-dealing, dubious, errant, evil, fraudulent, gnarled, hooked, illegal, incurving, indirect, iniquitous, irregular, jagged, kinked, kinky, knurly, lopsided, lying, meandering, misshapen, nefarious, not straight, oblique, out of shape, questionable, rambling, roundabout, ruthless, screwy, serpentine, shady, shifty, sinuous, skewed, slanted, snaky, spiral, suborned, tilted, topsy-turvy, tortile, tortuous, treacherous, twisting, underhand, uneven, unlawful, unprincipled, unscrupulous, untruthful, winding, zigzag
Antonyms
aboveboard, ethical, frank, good, honest, law-abiding, lawful, moral, open, principled, scrupulous, straight, trustworthy, truthful, unbent, untwisted
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