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crooked

adj. having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"

asymmetrical, crooked

adj. irregular in shape or outline; "asymmetrical features"; "a dress with a crooked hemline"

hunched, round-backed, round-shouldered, stooped, stooping, crooked

adj. having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect; "a little oldish misshapen stooping woman"

crabwise, sideways

adj. (of movement) at an angle

serpentine, snaky, snakelike

adj. resembling a serpent in form; "a serpentine wall"; "snaky ridges in the sand"

deformed, distorted, 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"

furtive, sneak(a), sneaky, stealthy, surreptitious

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. variable and recurring at irregular intervals ; "an uneven gait"; "uneven spacing"

jerking, jerky, arrhythmic, unsteady

adj. not having a steady rhythm; "an arrhythmic heartbeat"

casual, occasional

adj. occurring 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, randomised

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"

accumbent, decumbent, recumbent

adj. lying down; in a position of comfort or rest

bended, bent

adj. used of the back and knees; stooped; "on bended knee"; "with bent (or bended) back"

cernuous, drooping, nodding, pendulous, weeping

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(ip)

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"

dormant(ip), sleeping

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

prone, prostrate

adj. lying face downward

slouched, slouching, slumped

adj. with shoulders drooping

supine, resupine

adj. lying face upward

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"

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