Crookedly

adv. [f. CROOKED + -LY².] In a crooked manner (see the adj.).

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c. 1374. Chaucer, Anel. & Arc., 171. She … al crampisshed hir limmes crokedly.

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1398. Trevisa, Barth. De P. R., XVIII. ix. (1495), 760. Some serpentes crepyth and glydyth … crokydly.

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c. 1400. Lanfranc’s Cirurg., 140. Þe yȝen to loke asquynt eiþer crokidliche.

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1578. Chr. Prayers, in Priv. Prayers (1851), 437. That we talk not smoothly, and walk crookedly.

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1655. Digges, Compl. Ambass., 161. The late Spanish Ambassador … used himself very crookedly, perniciously, and maliciously against the State.

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1785. Phil. Trans., LXXV. 219. A crookedly branching nebula.

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1866. Mrs. Gaskell, Wives & Dau., I. xi. 126. A shawl crookedly put on.

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1874. Mahaffy, Soc. Life Greece, iii. 60, footn. The men who … decide crookedly in the agora and banish justice.

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