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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

Steps look as if they have been crookedly cut on site to fit, while handrails crash into parts of the steel structure as if no one thought about how the two parts might meet.

From The Guardian Apr. 9, 2019

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

He looked at her from under his lashes, smiling crookedly, and her heart skipped several beats.

From "When Dimple Met Rishi" by Sandhya Menon




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