Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - crooked

adj. (crookeder, crookedest) 1 a not straight or level; bent, curved, twisted. b deformed, bent with age. 2 colloq. not straightforward; dishonest. 3 Austral. & NZ sl. = CROOK adj. 2. 4 (foll. by on) Austral. sl. hostile to. Derivatives crookedly adv. crookedness n. Etymology: ME f. CROOK, prob. after ON kr{oacute}k{oacute}ttr