crookedly
- a word derived from crooked.
Example Sentences
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I overreacted to small mishaps, such as loading our boat onto the trailer crookedly and accidentally breaking my lizard-catching pole.
From Nature • May 21, 2020
A photo of the pope is tacked crookedly to one side.
From Salon • Sep. 12, 2017
"The White Album" — arrives in a glossy gatefold sleeve, the band's name crookedly embossed and possessing a unique numerical identifier, just like the first issue in 1968.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2014
For every 22 cars, how many would you expect to be parked crookedly, on average?
From Textbooks • Sep. 19, 2013
Bënduka is the bent-sideways girl who walks slowly, but bënduka is also the name of a fast-flying bird, the swallow with curved wings who darts crookedly quick through trees near the river.
From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver
