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Adjectives (8)
crooked
adj. having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"
asymmetrical
adj. irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with an crooked hemline"
corrupt
adj. not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive
hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping
adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"
Fuzzynyms (109)
oblique, crabwise, sideways
adj. (of movement) at an angle
serpentine, snaky
adj. resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand"
distorted, deformed, ill-shapen, malformed, misshapen
adj. so badly formed or out of shape as to be ugly; "deformed thalidomide babies"; "his poor distorted limbs"; "an ill-shapen vase"; "a limp caused by a malformed foot"; "misshapen old fingers"
skulking, sneak, surreptitious, stealthy, furtive, hole-and-corner, hole-in-corner, sneaky, underhand
adj. marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed; "a furtive manner"; "a sneak attack"; "stealthy footsteps"; "a surreptitious glance at his watch"
uneven
adj. not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
misleading, deceitful, deceptive, fraudulent
adj. intended to deceive; "deceitful advertising"; "fallacious testimony"; "smooth, shining, and deceitful as thin ice" - S.T.Coleridge; "a fraudulent scheme to escape paying taxes"
double-dealing, two-faced, ambidextrous, deceitful, duplicitous
adj. marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another; "she was a deceitful scheming little thing"- Israel Zangwill; "a double-dealing double agent"; "a double-faced infernal traitor and schemer"- W.M.Thackeray
false
adj. not in accordance with the fact or reality or actuality; "gave false testimony under oath"; "false tales of bravery"
perfidious, treacherous
adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"
Janus-faced, two-faced, deceitful, double-faced, hypocritical, double-tongued
adj. professing feelings or virtues one does not have; "hypocritical praise"
corruptible, bribable, dishonest, venal
adj. capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer"
slain
adj. killed; `slain' is formal or literary as in "slain warriors"; "a picture of St. George and the slain dragon"
dead, lifeless
adj. lacking animation or excitement or activity; "the party being dead we left early"; "it was a lifeless party until she arrived"
dropped
adj. (used of a mammal) born
adulterate, debased, adulterated
adj. mixed with impurities
immoral
adj. deliberately violating accepted principles of right and wrong
ungodly, sinful, iniquitous, peccant
adj. characterized by iniquity; wicked because it is believed to be a sin; "iniquitous deeds"; "he said it was sinful to wear lipstick"; "ungodly acts"
unrighteous
adj. not righteous; "an unrighteous man"; "an unrighteous law"
unfair, unjust
adj. not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception; "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"
base, mean, scurvy, contemptible, currish, meanspirited, mean-spirited
adj. having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics"
squalid, sordid, seedy, seamy, sleazy
adj. morally degraded; "a seedy district"; "the seamy side of life"; "sleazy characters hanging around casinos"; "sleazy storefronts with...dirt on the walls"- Seattle Weekly; "the sordid details of his orgies stank under his very nostrils"- James Joyce; "the squalid atmosphere of intrigue and betrayal"
base, baseborn
adj. illegitimate
evil, vicious, depraved
adj. having the nature of vice
devious, scheming, calculating
adj. used of persons; "the most calculating and selfish men in the community"
evil, wicked
adj. morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds"
corrupt
adj. containing errors or alterations; "a corrupt text"; "spoke a corrupted version of the language"
defiled, impure
adj. having the purity corrupted; made unclean; "the defiled Temple"
sinister, corruptive, perversive
adj. "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
dirty, soiled, unclean
adj. soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves"
dirty, infected, contaminated
adj. contaminated with infecting organisms; "dirty wounds"; "obliged to go into infected rooms"- Jane Austen
base, ugly, vile
adj. morally reprehensible; "would do something as despicable as murder"; "ugly crimes"; "the vile development of slavery appalled them"; "a slimy little liar"
wrong, untrue
adj. not according with the facts; "unfortunately the statement was simply untrue"
inexact
adj. not exact
perverted, distorted, misrepresented, twisted
adj. having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented; "many of the facts seemed twisted out of any semblance to reality"; "a perverted translation of the poem"
nefarious, villainous
adj. extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves"
ignoble
adj. completely lacking nobility in character or quality or purpose; "something cowardly and ignoble in his attitude"; "I think it a less evil that some criminals should escape than that the government should play an ignoble part"- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
blackguardly, rascally, roguish, scoundrelly
adj. lacking principles or scruples; "the rascally rabble"; "the tyranny of a scoundrelly aristocracy" - W.M. Thackaray; "the captain was set adrift by his roguish crew"
wicked
adj. morally bad in principle or practice
Synonyms (53)
coiled
adj. curled or wound (especially in concentric rings or spirals); "a coiled snake ready to strike"; "the rope lay coiled on the deck"
indirect
adj. not direct in spatial dimension; not leading by a straight line or course to a destination; "sometimes taking an indirect path saves time"; "you must take an indirect course in sailing"
jerking, jerky, arrhythmic, unsteady
adj. not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"
casual, occasional
adj. occuring from time to time; "casual employment"; "a casual correspondence with a former teacher"; "an occasional worker"
grab
adj. taken or to be taken at random: "grab samples"
improper, unconventional, unlawful
adj. not conforming to legality, moral law, or social convention; "an unconventional marriage"; "improper banking practices"
randomized
adj. set up or distributed in a deliberately random way
straggly
adj. growing or spreading sparsely or irregularly; "straggly ivy"
strong
adj. of verbs not having standard (or regular) inflection; "`sing' is a strong verb"
substandard
adj. falling short of some prescribed norm; "substandard housing"
dishonest, dishonorable, dishonourable
adj. deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive
unlawful
adj. contrary to or prohibited by or defiant of law; "unlawful measures"; "unlawful money"; "unlawful hunters"
reclining, accumbent, decumbent, recumbent, lying down
adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest
bent, bowed, inclined
adj. used especially of the head or upper back; "a bent head and sloping shoulders"
nodding, cernuous, drooping, pendulous
adj. having branches or flower heads that bend downward; "nodding daffodils"; "the pendulous branches of a weeping willow"; "lilacs with drooping panicles of fragrant flowers"
couchant
adj. lying on the stomach with head raised with legs pointed forward
huddled, crouched, crouching, hunkered, hunkered down
adj. squatting close to the ground; "poorly clothed men huddled low against the wind"; "he stayed in the ditch hunkered down"
sleeping, dormant
adj. lying with head on paws as if sleeping
flat, prostrate
adj. stretched out and lying at full length along the ground; "found himself lying flat on the floor"
kneeling
adj. (unerect)
leaning
adj. departing or being caused to depart from the true vertical or horizontal; "the leaning tower of Pisa"; "the headstones were tilted"
lolling, lounging
adj. lying in a relaxed manner
prostrate, prone
adj. lying face downward
slouched, slouching, slumped
adj. with shoulders drooping
supine, resupine
adj. lying face upward
Antonyms (16)
straight
adj. having no deviations; "straight lines"; "straight roads across the desert"; "straight teeth"; "straight shoulders"
aligned
adj. in a straight line; "pearly teeth evenly aligned"
straight
adj. characterized by honesty and fairness; "straight dealing"; "a square deal"
honest, straightforward, aboveboard
adj. without concealment or deception; honest; "their business was open and aboveboard"; "straightforward in all his business affairs"
honest, honorable, honourable
adj. not disposed to cheat or defraud; not deceptive or fraudulent; "honest lawyers"; "honest reporting"; "an honest wage"; "honest weight"
reputable
adj. having a good reputation; "a reputable business"; "a reputable scientist"; "a reputable wine"
worthy
adj. having worth or merit or value; being honorable or admirable; "a worthy fellow"; "no student deemed worthy, and chosen for admission, would be kept out for lack of funds"- Nathan Pusey; "worthy of acclaim"; "worthy of consideration"; "a worthy cause"
fair, just, equitable
adj. "honest wages for an honest day's work"
fair, just
adj. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
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