crookedly

Example Sentences

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I overreacted to small mishaps, such as loading our boat onto the trailer crookedly and accidentally breaking my lizard-catching pole.

From Nature • May 21, 2020

Steps look as if they have been crookedly cut on site to fit, while handrails crash into parts of the steel structure as if no one thought about how the two parts might meet.

From The Guardian • Apr. 9, 2019

A photo of the pope is tacked crookedly to one side.

From Salon • Sep. 12, 2017

"The White Album" — arrives in a glossy gatefold sleeve, the band's name crookedly embossed and possessing a unique numerical identifier, just like the first issue in 1968.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 9, 2014

The light blue kitchen tiles were worn and chipped at the comers, but they looked scrubbed clean, as did the pots, whose lids did not fit, one side slipping crookedly into the pot.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie