Word Meanings - CROOKEDLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.

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• CROOKBILL
  A New Zealand plover , remarkable for having the end of the beak abruptly bent to the right.
• CROOKES TUBE
  A vacuum tube in which the exhaustion is carried to a very high degree, with the production of a distinct class of effects; -- so called from W. Crookes who introduced it.
• CROOKBACK
  A crooked back; one who has a crooked or deformed back; a hunchback.
• CROOKNECK
  Either of two varieties of squash, distinguished by their tapering, recurved necks. The summer crookneck is botanically a variety of the pumpkin and matures early in the season. It is pale yellow in color, with warty excrescences. The
• CURVIROSTRES
  A group of passerine birds, including the creepers and nuthatches.
• CROOKEDLY
  In a curved or crooked manner; in a perverse or untoward manner.
• CURVICAUDATE
  Having a curved or crooked tail.
• CURVISERIAL
  Distributed in a curved line, as leaves along a stem.
• CURVE
  Bent without angles; crooked; curved; as, a curve line; a curve surface.
• CURVATURE
  The amount of degree of bending of a mathematical curve, or the tendency at any point to depart from a tangent drawn to the curve at that point. Aberrancy of curvature , the deviation of a curve from a curcular form. -Absolute curvature. See under
• CURVATE; CURVATED
  Bent in a regular form; curved.
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• PERVERSENESS
  The quality or state of being perverse. "Virtue hath some perverseness." Donne.
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• UNTOWARDLY
  Perverse; froward; untoward. "Untowardly tricks and vices." Locke.
• CURVILINEARITY
  The state of being curvilinear or of being bounded by curved lines.
• CURVATIVE
  Having the margins only a little curved; -- said of leaves. Henslow.
• CURVIDENTATE
  Having curved teeth.
• PERVERSED
  Turned aside.
• CURVAL; CURVANT
  Bowed; bent; curved.
• TRICURVATE
  Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• RECURVE
  To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.
• CROOK
  A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key. 6. A person given to fraudulent practices; an accomplice of thieves, forgers, etc. By hook or by crook, in some way or other; by fair means or foul. (more
• RECURVATE
  Recurved.
• SCURVILY
  In a scurvy manner.
• RECURVITY
  Recurvation.