adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
crooked
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He grinned at me, showing rotten, crooked teeth.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
smile
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The crooked smile was fixed and deliberate.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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crooked teeth
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A crooked civil servant sold hundreds of British passports on the black market, a court heard yesterday.
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Smoke rose out of the crooked chimney.
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The land was obtained in a crooked business deal between politicians and an Arizona savings and loans association.
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The picture's crooked - move it a little to the left.
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They moved down the narrow crooked streets of the old town.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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He never knew his father, his uncles were on the fringes of crooked activity and his drunken step-father sold second-hand cars.
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Held crooked , a little behind him, it served no useful purpose.
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Mary's uncle had black hair with some white in it, and high, crooked shoulders.
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Now that he was gone I supposed that the crooked would be made straight and the rough places plain.
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Physically most disturbing of all was his collection of jutting and crooked teeth.
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She knows her party is vulnerable to any hint of being kind to crooked capitalists.