crookedly

He straightens a shirt that’s hanging crookedly.

The flowered basket hung crookedly.

He shouldered it crookedly and zipped away from the tree, not waiting for any of the rest of them.

A bowl of fruit sat unscathed on the table in one kitchen that had been opened up like a dollhouse; in another unit, a painting of a dog hung crookedly on a kitchen wall — though the kitchen was no longer there.

Instead, I affected a kind of amiable world-weariness about the whole predicament, then smiled crookedly, leaned back in the chair and wrenched open my ramshackle jaw as wide as I could manage so that she’d just get on with the exam.