not crooked
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The cops are scared if they're not crooked.
From Reuters ● Jul. 30, 2010
They are tall, slender trees, not crooked old fellows like you.
From The Old Willow Tree and Other Stories by Carl Ewald
He placed the flexible little characters in our hands to bend this way or that, expecting us to make them grow upright and not crooked, to look to Heaven, instead of trailing on earth.
From The Village Pulpit, Volume II. Trinity to Advent A Complete Course of 66 Short Sermons, or Full Sermon Outlines for Each Sunday, and Some Chief Holy Days of the Christian Year by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
For just as it is necessary immediately after birth to shapen the limbs of children, so that they may grow straight and not crooked, so from the beginning must their habits be carefully 5attended to.
From Plutarch's Morals by Arthur Richard Shilleto
Now let us plant the seedlings straight; Pleasing to the gods are the ways that are not crooked.
From The Foundations of Japan Notes Made During Journeys Of 6,000 Miles In The Rural Districts As A Basis For A Sounder Knowledge Of The Japanese People by J.W. Robertson Scott
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