Crooked

(adj.) having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; 'crooked country roads'; 'crooked teeth' .

(adj.) not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive .

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• Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The streets generally are four or five to eight feet wide and as crooked as a corkscrew. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I am inclined to think that the percentage of crooked people was smaller when I was young. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• Who else comes and goes, and marks the walls with long crooked touches when we are all a-bed? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The handles were made from crooked branches of trees. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But the dear child,' said Lammle, with a crooked smile, 'ought to have been open with her benefactor and benefactress. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Will he, in the language of Pindar, make justice his high tower, or fortify himself with crooked deceit? 柏拉图. 理想国.
• If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• When divested of metaphor, a straight line or a square has no more to do with right and justice than a crooked line with vice. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Of course, said Catherine, if it hadn't been crooked we'd never have backed him at all. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I don't like this crooked racing! 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• They were armed with crooked sabres, having the hilt and baldric inlaid with gold, and matched with Turkish daggers of yet more costly workmanship. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The letter, which was scrawled in pencil uphill and downhill and round crooked corners, ran thus: 'OLD RIAH, Your accounts being all squared, go. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• You are not passing the comb straight through my hair, Harriet; the line will be crooked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Another dry twist in place of a smile, made his face crooked here. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It is so crooked and cramped and dirty that one can not realize that he is in the splendid city he saw from the hill-top. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The racing was very crooked. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It's crooked and disgusting, Ferguson said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• She's half blind, crooked with rheumatis, and foolish to boot. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The family room looked very small and very mean, and the downward staircase by which it was attained looked very narrow and very crooked. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• One cannot go straight on a crooked road. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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