Crooked
['krʊkɪd]
解釋/意思:
(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 .
黛西手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(imp. & p. p.) of Crook
(a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
(a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
(a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.
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同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Bent, curved, bowed, winding, not straight.[2]. Distorted, twisted, wry, awry, askew, deformed, disfigured.[3]. Perverse, froward, dishonest, unfair, dishonorable, knavish, unscrupulous, deceitful, tricky, insidious, crafty, intriguing, diplomatic, Machiavelian.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Bent, incurved, angular, deformed, bowed, disfigured, turned, curved, awry,anfractuous, tortuous, underhanded
ANT:Straight, linear, direct, honest, straightforward
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例句/造句/用法:
- Egyptian Crooked Stick, Precursor of Modern Plough. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- How they showed their scars and sores, and piteously pointed to their maimed and crooked limbs, and begged with their pleading eyes for charity! 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The streets generally are four or five to eight feet wide and as crooked as a corkscrew. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- I am inclined to think that the percentage of crooked people was smaller when I was young. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- I afterward found that he had been previously mixed up with a somewhat similar crooked job in connection with telephone patents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I remember Mr. Cheshire, with his irons, trying to make people straight when the Almighty had made them crooked. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- A small, dim, crooked shop, kept in a tortuous, up-hill thoroughfare, by a small, dim, crooked man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- Who else comes and goes, and marks the walls with long crooked touches when we are all a-bed? 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- The handles were made from crooked branches of trees. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世紀發明.
- Up these little crooked streets they will murder a man for seven dollars and dump the body in the Seine. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But the dear child,' said Lammle, with a crooked smile, 'ought to have been open with her benefactor and benefactress. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Will he, in the language of Pindar, make justice his high tower, or fortify himself with crooked deceit? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- If you can't get to be oncommon through going straight, you'll never get to do it through going crooked. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- 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. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- Of course, said Catherine, if it hadn't been crooked we'd never have backed him at all. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I don't like this crooked racing! 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,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. 沃爾特·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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- You are not passing the comb straight through my hair, Harriet; the line will be crooked. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Another dry twist in place of a smile, made his face crooked here. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The racing was very crooked. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It's crooked and disgusting, Ferguson said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- I do not like crooked, twisted, blasted trees. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It is as crooked as any brook, and only from one-quarter to two-thirds as wide as the Mississippi. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- She's half blind, crooked with rheumatis, and foolish to boot. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The family room looked very small and very mean, and the downward staircase by which it was attained looked very narrow and very crooked. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- One cannot go straight on a crooked road. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
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