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Bent vs. Crooked — What's the Difference?

Bent vs. Crooked — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Bent and Crooked

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Bent

Past tense and past participle of bend1.

Crooked

Having or marked by bends, curves, or angles.

Bent

Altered from an originally straight or even condition
Picked up pieces of bent wire.

Crooked

At an irregular or improper angle; askew
Your necktie is crooked.

Bent

Determined to take a course of action
I was bent on going to the concert.
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Crooked

(Informal) Dishonest or unscrupulous; fraudulent.

Bent

Chiefly British Corrupt; venal.

Crooked

Simple past tense and past participle of crook

Bent

A tendency, disposition, or inclination
"The natural bent of my mind was to science" (Thomas Paine).

Crooked

Not straight; having one or more bends or angles.
We walked up the crooked path to the top of the hill.

Bent

A transverse structural member or framework that is used for strengthening a bridge or trestle.

Crooked

Set at an angle; not vertical or square.
That picture is crooked - could you straighten it up for me?

Bent

Bentgrass.

Crooked

(figuratively) Dishonest or illegal; corrupt.
He was trying to interest me in another one of his crooked deals.

Bent

The stiff stalk of various grasses.

Crooked

Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere.

Bent

An area of grassland unbounded by hedges or fences.

Crooked

Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
They are a perverse and crooked generation.

Bent

Simple past tense and past participle of bend

Crooked

False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Bent

(Of something that is usually straight) Folded, dented.

Crooked

Having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned;
Crooked country roads
Crooked teeth

Bent

Corrupt, dishonest.

Crooked

Not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

Bent

Homosexual.

Crooked

Irregular in shape or outline;
Asymmetrical features
A dress with an crooked hemline

Bent

Determined or insistent.
He was bent on going to Texas, but not even he could say why.
They were bent on mischief.

Crooked

Having the back and shoulders rounded; not erect;
A little oldish misshapen stooping woman

Bent

(Of a person) leading a life of crime.

Bent

Inaccurately aimed.
That shot was so bent it left the pitch.

Bent

Suffering from the bends.

Bent

(slang) High from both marijuana and alcohol.
Man, I am so bent right now!

Bent

An inclination or talent.
He had a natural bent for painting.

Bent

A predisposition to act or react in a particular way.
His mind was of a technical bent.

Bent

The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity.
The bent of a bow

Bent

A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

Bent

Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.

Bent

(carpentry) A transverse frame of a framed structure; a subunit of framing.

Bent

Such a subunit as a component of a barn's framing, joined to other bents by girts and summer beams.

Bent

Such a subunit as a reinforcement to, or integral part of, a bridge's framing.

Bent

Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.

Bent

Any of various stiff or reedy grasses.

Bent

A grassy area, grassland.

Bent

The old dried stalks of grasses.

Bent

Changed by pressure so as to be no longer straight; crooked; as, a bent pin; a bent lever.

Bent

Strongly inclined toward something, so as to be resolved, determined, set, etc.; - said of the mind, character, disposition, desires, etc., and used with on; as, to be bent on going to college; he is bent on mischief.

Bent

The state of being curved, crooked, or inclined from a straight line; flexure; curvity; as, the bent of a bow.

Bent

A declivity or slope, as of a hill.

Bent

A leaning or bias; proclivity; tendency of mind; inclination; disposition; purpose; aim.
With a native bent did good pursue.

Bent

Particular direction or tendency; flexion; course.
Bents and turns of the matter.

Bent

A transverse frame of a framed structure.

Bent

Tension; force of acting; energy; impetus.
The full bent and stress of the soul.

Bent

A reedlike grass; a stalk of stiff, coarse grass.
His spear a bent, both stiff and strong.

Bent

A grass of the genus Agrostis, esp. Agrostis vulgaris, or redtop. The name is also used of many other grasses, esp. in America.

Bent

Any neglected field or broken ground; a common; a moor.
Bowmen bickered upon the bent.

Bent

A relatively permanent inclination to react in a particular way;
The set of his mind was obvious

Bent

Grass for pastures and lawns especially bowling and putting greens

Bent

A special way of doing something;
He had a bent for it
He had a special knack for getting into trouble
He couldn't get the hang of it

Bent

Altered from an originally straight condition;
A bent wire

Bent

Fixed in your purpose;
Bent on going to the theater
Dead set against intervening
Out to win every event

Bent

Used of the back and knees; stooped;
On bended knee
With bent (or bended) back

Bent

Used especially of the head or upper back;
A bent head and sloping shoulders

Bent

Of metal e.g.;
Bent nails
A car with a crumpled front end
Dented fenders

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