crookedness

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• Our world would wobble more, our horizons would be crooked, and our shortest paths would be harder to find.

• It didn’t look crooked or out of place, so I went ahead with my trip and my hiking.

• He cited “the crooked Democratic machine,” which has been in decline for years.

• In a town full of Bernini masterpieces, the modest jack-o-lanterns I sculpt—their crooked smiles and woefully off-center eyes—are hailed as true wonders.

• I turned around and he grinned at me, his teeth as crooked as mine.

• He and the others in the Circle of Trust want crooked judges ditched and the notoriously corrupt police reformed.

• And there was an underlying compassion for each character, no matter how crooked or misguided or totally bananas.

• Smiling on the red carpet, Gaga showed off a set of oversized rotten dentures, featuring "metallic gums and crooked teeth."

• The economy melts down because of something a bunch of crooked bankers do.

• A person, Kant tells us, is crooked timber from which no straight thing can be made.

• They come to a halt suddenly, before a little huddling figure, with its face hidden in its arms, crouched beside a crooked rail.

• She wore an old poke bonnet and carried a crooked stick, and there seemed to be a hump upon her back.

• Amy, who was strong and quick, reached over the gunwale of the canoe and seized upon the crooked figure.

• Sometimes they would clamp a crooked stick between a grooved piece of sandstone and a flat bone.

• It may be a mere dialectal form of 'crooked,' or it may be miswritten for kroked, the usual old spelling.