14 example sentences using crooked.
Crooked used in a sentence
Crooked in a sentence as an adjective
> "Some cops are crooked so screw them all?
This is the crooked way that all of our US government is spending our tax money.
The human traders who profited from spreads in the 1980s were often crooked as a carton full of fish hooks.
The only people that lose out are crooked cops and members of the public wanting to file unwarranted abuse claims.
> non-plumbers dont care about the aesthetics of plumbingOf course they do. Nobody wants crooked pipes in their house, or pipes visible where they need not be.
What was so blatantly obvious that even the senile, crooked decision makers at the EU couldn't miss it?
"Not all cops are crooked - but the Blue Code of Silence puts the culpability for the crooked cops' crimes squarely on the police force as a whole.
Unfortunately, I plugged in the disk drive connector crooked, sending -12 volts into a chip on the controller board that didn't want -12 volts.
And no, I don't mean "can't trust them" as in somehow they are purposefully deceiving anybody or crooked or any of that.
Sometimes there's a hole drilled in slightly the wrong location, a hinge is crooked, or there's a small gap between two pieces that should be flush against each other.
I had one guy get angry at me for making a frame that was visibly crooked, so I told him he should probably make it square and hang it up himself.
Really crooked companies will also quietly steal your 401k contributions.
It implies the existence of an entire supply chain - crooked engineers/programmers, distributers, retailers, and maybe even government, manufacturers, building managers, etc. All to satisfy the market's "need" for the product to appear to work for longer than someone's visit lasts.
Does that mean they know the cop who wrote you the ticket and the judge who found you guilty, both went faster than the speed limit that morning when you all appeared in court?This is kind of like how the NSA knows about every crooked cop in America based on financial and voice/data traffic but decides not to tell anyone because it might upset people they know this.
Crooked definitions
having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
See also: corrupt
irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline"
See also: asymmetrical
having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
See also: hunched round-backed round-shouldered stooped stooping