7 letters · 14 points in Scrabble
verb bend or cause to bend
adjective having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned
adjective not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
originFrom Middle English croked, crokid, past participle of croken (“to crook, bend”). Cognate with Danish kroget (“crooked”). More at crook.
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