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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