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I overreacted to small mishaps, such as loading our boat onto the trailer crookedly and accidentally breaking my lizard-catching pole.

From Nature May 21, 2020

A photo of the pope is tacked crookedly to one side.

From Salon Sep. 12, 2017

"The White Album" — arrives in a glossy gatefold sleeve, the band's name crookedly embossed and possessing a unique numerical identifier, just like the first issue in 1968.

From Los Angeles Times Sep. 9, 2014

We are interested in the number of cars that are parked crookedly.

From Textbooks Sep. 19, 2013

Actually, you can hardly call them that, since they’re nothing but scraps of fabric, varying greatly in shape, quality and pattern, which Father and I stitched crookedly together with unskilled fingers.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank




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