The phrase "a crooked path" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a route or journey that is not straight, often implying difficulty or moral ambiguity.
Example: "After years of searching for the truth, I found myself on a crooked path filled with unexpected challenges."
Alternatives: "a winding road" or "a twisted route".
The tornadoes touched down just west of this sprawling community and skipped a crooked path across the north west part of the city.
The movie leads us down a crooked path and if we accept it as truth then anything is possible, even black rage.
Then he mentioned a poem, "The Calf-Path" by Sam Walter Foss, about how a crooked path made by a wayward calf ended up becoming an official road followed by everyone for centuries.
In other words, she is the inheritor of a proud literary and artistic tradition, following along a crooked path traveled by Huckleberry Finn, Scout Finch, Eloise (of the Plaza), Elliott (from "E.T").
It's also about setting a crooked path in front of young men and women who are in a classroom to learn what it means to be a soldier, far from home, and about the vulnerability of the civilians in the countries where they were sent.
"The Pine Oil Writers Conferencee" skewers writing workshops; "Good for the Soul" manipulates kindly Father Ledet into hearing a deathbed confession that leads him down a crooked path of drinking and car-stealing which had this reader laughing for 10 minutes.
Warfare has long driven science, perhaps most visibly in the development of nuclear weapons.In this section Images to delight and confound Slaves to some defunct economist Riddle wrapped in a mystery Crooked path to universal truth The journey of an inquiring mind Puff by puff, inch by inch ReprintsBecause science is done by people, its progress is messy.
The few who make it to adult greatness often take a slightly crooked path.
Featuring a book and lyrics by Joy Gregory, and music and lyrics by Gunnar Madsen, "The Shaggs" chronicles the real-life story of the Wiggin sisters -- Dorothy, known as Dot (vocals and lead guitar); Betty (rhythm guitar); and Helen (drums) -- who had no musical experience when their father, Austin, pulled them out of school and set them on a very crooked path to artistic immortality.
"It's been a long, crooked path.
He lucidly explicates Berlin's work even as he draws a lively and vivid portrait of a major figure whose crooked path from Russian obscurity to Oxfordian fame was full of events, encounters with interesting others and even a bit of skulduggery.
