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   Crook , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Crooked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Crooking.] [OE. croken; cf. Sw. krka, Dan. krge. See Crook, n.]
   To turn from a straight line; to bend; to curve.
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   Crook the pregnant hinges of the knee.
   Shak.
   
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   To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist. [Archaic]
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   There is no one thing that crooks youth more than such unlawfull games.
   Ascham.
   
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   What soever affairs pass such a man's hands, he crooketh them to his own ends.
   Bacon.
   
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   Crooked , a.
    Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed. “Crooked paths.”
   Locke.
   
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   he is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.
   Shak.
   
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   Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
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   They are a perverse and crooked generation.
   Deut. xxxii. 5.
   
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   False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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   Crooked whisky, whisky on which the payment of duty has been fraudulently evaded. [Slang, U.S.]
   Barlett.
   
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