crooked
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It was a look that made clear, for a moment, the force his grandfather had once been; and still was, under the old paper skin and the crooked hands.
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Goodness, the crooked stairway is a musical scale of a most unfortunate melody.
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Still, I like Celia, with her crooked baseball hat and the smile that pops up like a surprise on her face.
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Hers was always a little crooked, like no matter what was going on, she was amused.
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In a 1981 address at Smith College, he called the news media “a crooked mirror” through which “white America views itself,” the New York Times reported.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.