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Discover LudwigThe word "crookedly" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe an action or something that is not straight, i.e. when something curves or bends in an irregular way. Example sentence: The branches of the old tree twisted crookedly in the wind.
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crookedly
adverb
In a crooked manner.
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Still more disappointingly, since Welfare continues to run a lot of municipal governments less crookedly than its rival secular parties, Mr Erbakan has failed to tackle high-level corruption.As for spreading Islam, he has not gone far.
For his rockets (their longest range so far is about a kilometre) he uses propellants, also from fertiliser.Opening his laptop, he displays a video of one of his projectiles taking off, albeit crookedly, with a plume of white smoke.
So badly and crookedly managed are state-owned companies that electricity, as Mr Kibaki noted in his first campaign speech, is eight times costlier than in Egypt.
Their masts are tree trunks winding crookedly towards the sky.
Yet a rider to the Rhetra, associated with the late 8th-century kings Theopompus and Polydorus, says that, if the people choose crookedly, the elders and kings shall be dissolvers.
Youngs believes too many tighthead props are getting away with scrummaging crookedly, but he has nothing negative to say about Hartley's renewed availability after the suspension for head-butting last May that saw the Northampton No 2 omitted from the World Cup.
She'd taken a seat opposite Finn at the kitchen table and watched him eat his food the way he always did: peas first, one by one, then the potatoes, all the time his small brow furrowed with such intensity that she imagined the ducks resurrected inside his head, waddling crookedly, beating their wings against the walls.
Dressed in sweatshirts, jeans, and sneakers, the Met's Muscovites milled around a steeply raked mound of mud, on which a nineteenth-century-style street lamp perched crookedly.
He looked down at the boys, grinning crookedly and reaching for his cigarette case.
He gazed down at his spoon and knife, at his empty cup set crookedly on its saucer, at the miniature milk pitcher and the sugar bowl.
The gate was made of old gray wood washed silvery by the rain; it swung crookedly on rusting hinges.
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