crookedly
Example Sentences
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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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