crooked

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

CROOKED, participle passive or adjective 1. Bent; curved; curving; winding. 2. Winding in moral conduct; devious; froward; perverse; going out of the path of rectitude; given to obliquity or wandering from duty. They are a perverse and crooked generation. Deuteronomy 32:5.
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