n. 25B6; adjective
the bucket had a bent handle : TWISTED, crooked, warped, contorted, deformed, misshapen, out of shape, irregular; bowed, arched, curved, angled, hooked, kinked; N. Amer. informal pretzeled.
(Brit. informal) a bent policeman. : See corrupt adjective sense 1.
(Brit. informal) . See homosexual adjective .
straight, law-abiding, heterosexual.
25B6; noun an artistic bent : INCLINATION, leaning, tendency; talent, gift, flair, aptitude, facility, skill, capability, capacity; predisposition, disposition, instinct, orientation, predilection, proclivity, propensity.
25A0; bent on INTENT ON, determined on, set on, insistent on, resolved on, hell-bent on; committed to, single-minded about, obsessed with, fanatical about, fixated on.