crookedly

ADJECTIVE

askew

Synonyms

STRONGEST

awry off-center

WEAK

askance askant aslant bent buckled catawampus cockeyed curved knotted lopsided oblique obliquely slanted slanting to one side topsy-turvey turned twisted yaw ways zigzag

ADVERB

falsely

Synonyms

STRONGEST

maliciously

WEAK

basely behind one's back dishonestly dishonorably disloyally faithlessly falseheartedly malevolently perfidiously roguishly traitorously treacherously underhandedly unfaithfully unscrupulously

Antonyms

WEAK

honestly truthfully

ADVERB

untruthfully

Synonyms

STRONG

mendaciously

WEAK

deceivingly deceptively falsely slyly underhandedly untruly wrongly

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Crookedly hung pictures had been straightened; some Christmas magazines were lying about, and bowls of chrysanthemums relieved the room of its wonted gloom.

From The Guests Of Hercules by Bracker, M. Leone

crookedly

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