What's the difference between crooked and right?

Crooked


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Crook
  • (a.) Characterized by a crook or curve; not straight; turning; bent; twisted; deformed.
  • (a.) Not straightforward; deviating from rectitude; distorted from the right.
  • (a.) False; dishonest; fraudulent; as, crooked dealings.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A patient presented at the Department of Orthodontics, Medunsa Dental Hospital, complaining of "crooked teeth".
  • (2) And, I would say the co-founder would be crooked Hillary Clinton.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump doubles down on his Isis comments, saying that Hillary Clinton is the group’s MVP On Thursday, Clinton attacked Trump for the remarks on Twitter.
  • (3) Subjects were examined for somatic symptoms in accordance with Crooks' index of hyperthyroidism.
  • (4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Toby Jones and Mackenzie Crook in Detectorists.
  • (5) I have these words for the authorities: [it is a] creepy, crooked, evil way."
  • (6) Reinforced polyethylene or polyurethane catheters in the shape of a "Shepherd Crook" have led to improve selective and superselective catheterization of visceral arteries.
  • (7) The restenosis rate was 18% in the shepherd's crook group and 21% in the control group; repeat PTCA (14% v 15%) and bypass surgery (2% v 6%) rates were also similar in both groups.
  • (8) Julia Donaldson will be showcasing her latest book The Flying Bath as part of the children's programme, as the actor Mackenzie Crook launches his new title The Lost Journals of Benjamin Tooth, Frank Cottrell Boyce returns to Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and Rosen celebrates 25 years of We're Going on a Bear Hunt.
  • (9) He is less concerned with the legal debate than he is with the fact that western firms are being fleeced by shadowy cyber-crooks half a world away.
  • (10) The spear-phishing tricks we saw the Chinese secret police using against the Dalai Lama in 2008 were being used by Russian crooks to steal money from US companies by 2010.
  • (11) Some of them may feel favourable towards what they're doing, but many of them are able to hear their inner Jiminy Cricket over the voices of their leaders and crooked politicians – and of the people whose intimate communication they're tapping.
  • (12) For analysis of the cytokeratin (CK) of Crooke's cells, 28 post-mortem pituitary glands with unequivocal Crooke's hyaline change were investigated immunohistochemically using monoclonal antibodies for CK subfamilies.
  • (13) We drove north from Salima, past Nkhotakota, looking out for the crooked painted sign, but it had disappeared.
  • (14) Various locations, Chicago, opens 3 October New Objectivity: Modern German Art in the Weimar Republic, 1919–1933 It’s 1920: the German Empire has crumbled, and Berlin is a city of cripples and crooks, communists and cabaret stars.
  • (15) Clinical assessment (using the Crooks-Wayne index) was combined with the measurement of free thyroxine and triiodothyronine indices (FT4I and FT3I) and the assessment of two tissue markers of thyroid hormone action--sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) levels and the thyrotrophin responses to TRH.
  • (16) The zones were perpendicular to the long axes of the crooked floccular folia, forming the crooked zones.
  • (17) 'During the war, my grandparents were often uprooted - they moved in and out of London, and even came over here to America - but their Steinway always went with them and had to be squeezed up crooked staircases wherever they lodged.
  • (18) • The trip was provided by Crooked Trails (+1 206 383 9828, crookedtrails.org ), which works to help indigenous and rural communities worldwide benefit from tourism.
  • (19) about some property crook he'd first exposed in 1969 but who wasn't finally convicted until five or six years ago.
  • (20) Meanwhile in September 2014 we told how Barclays “has been accused by victims of fraud of loose security procedures which have enabled international crooks to open accounts with foreign passports and then use them to fleece individuals online”.Victims who have contacted Money this week include: • A judge and his wife living in the north of England who have lost £5,040.

Right


Definition:

  • (a.) Straight; direct; not crooked; as, a right line.
  • (a.) Upright; erect from a base; having an upright axis; not oblique; as, right ascension; a right pyramid or cone.
  • (a.) Conformed to the constitution of man and the will of God, or to justice and equity; not deviating from the true and just; according with truth and duty; just; true.
  • (a.) Fit; suitable; proper; correct; becoming; as, the right man in the right place; the right way from London to Oxford.
  • (a.) Characterized by reality or genuineness; real; actual; not spurious.
  • (a.) According with truth; passing a true judgment; conforming to fact or intent; not mistaken or wrong; not erroneous; correct; as, this is the right faith.
  • (a.) Most favorable or convenient; fortunate.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to that side of the body in man on which the muscular action is usually stronger than on the other side; -- opposed to left when used in reference to a part of the body; as, the right side, hand, arm. Also applied to the corresponding side of the lower animals.
  • (a.) Well placed, disposed, or adjusted; orderly; well regulated; correctly done.
  • (a.) Designed to be placed or worn outward; as, the right side of a piece of cloth.
  • (adv.) In a right manner.
  • (adv.) In a right or straight line; directly; hence; straightway; immediately; next; as, he stood right before me; it went right to the mark; he came right out; he followed right after the guide.
  • (adv.) Exactly; just.
  • (adv.) According to the law or will of God; conforming to the standard of truth and justice; righteously; as, to live right; to judge right.
  • (adv.) According to any rule of art; correctly.
  • (adv.) According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really; correctly; exactly; as, to tell a story right.
  • (adv.) In a great degree; very; wholly; unqualifiedly; extremely; highly; as, right humble; right noble; right valiant.
  • (a.) That which is right or correct.
  • (a.) The straight course; adherence to duty; obedience to lawful authority, divine or human; freedom from guilt, -- the opposite of moral wrong.
  • (a.) A true statement; freedom from error of falsehood; adherence to truth or fact.
  • (a.) A just judgment or action; that which is true or proper; justice; uprightness; integrity.
  • (a.) That to which one has a just claim.
  • (a.) That which one has a natural claim to exact.
  • (a.) That which one has a legal or social claim to do or to exact; legal power; authority; as, a sheriff has a right to arrest a criminal.
  • (a.) That which justly belongs to one; that which one has a claim to possess or own; the interest or share which anyone has in a piece of property; title; claim; interest; ownership.
  • (a.) Privilege or immunity granted by authority.
  • (a.) The right side; the side opposite to the left.
  • (a.) In some legislative bodies of Europe (as in France), those members collectively who are conservatives or monarchists. See Center, 5.
  • (a.) The outward or most finished surface, as of a piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
  • (a.) To bring or restore to the proper or natural position; to set upright; to make right or straight (that which has been wrong or crooked); to correct.
  • (a.) To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of; as, to right the oppressed; to right one's self; also, to vindicate.
  • (v. i.) To recover the proper or natural condition or position; to become upright.
  • (v. i.) Hence, to regain an upright position, as a ship or boat, after careening.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The origin of the aorta and pulmonary artery from the right ventricle is a complicated and little studied congenital cardiac malformation.
  • (2) But everyone in a nation should have the equal right to sing or not sing.
  • (3) As players, we want what's right, and we feel like no one in his family should be able to own the team.” The NBA has also said that Shelly Sterling should not remain as owner.
  • (4) CT scan revealed a small calcified mass in the right maxillary sinus.
  • (5) low molecular weight dextran in the course of right heart catheterization.
  • (6) The article describes an unusual case with development of a right anterior mediastinal mass after bypass surgery with internal mammary artery grafts.
  • (7) It is my desperate hope that we close out of town.” In the book, God publishes his own 'It Getteth Better' video and clarifies his original writings on homosexuality: I remember dictating these lines to Moses; and afterward looking up to find him staring at me in wide-eyed astonishment, and saying, "Thou do knowest that when the Israelites read this, they're going to lose their fucking shit, right?"
  • (8) Joe, meanwhile, defends her right to say "negro" whenever she wants.
  • (9) Evaluation revealed tricuspid insufficiency, a massively dilated right internal jugular vein, and obstruction of the left internal jugular vein.
  • (10) He voiced support for refugees, trade unions, council housing, peace, international law and human rights.
  • (11) We report on a patient, with a CT-verified low density lesion in the right parietal area, who exhibited not only deficits in left conceptual space, but also in reading, writing, and the production of speech.
  • (12) Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography failed to demonstrate any bile ducts in the right postero-lateral segments of the liver, the "naked segment sign".
  • (13) The criticism over the downgrading of the leader of the Lords was led by Lord Forsyth of Drumlean, a former Scotland secretary, who is a respected figure on the right.
  • (14) In this paper, we report the cases of 4 male patients (mean age 32.7 yr) with right-ventricular dysplasia, that occurred in familial form.
  • (15) Whittingdale also defended the right of MPs to use privilege to speak out on public interest matters.
  • (16) An axillo-axillary bypass procedure was performed in a high-risk patient with innominate arterial stenosis who had repeated episodes of transient cerebral ischemia due to decreased blood flow through the right carotid artery and reversal of blood flow through the right vertebral artery.
  • (17) After 1 year, anesthesia was induced with chloralose and an electrode catheter placed at the right ventricular apex.
  • (18) Right orchiectomy and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection for embryonal carcinoma had been performed 5 years earlier.
  • (19) Our findings indicate that Turner girls have a functional brain disorder more often than the controls, particularly at the occipital and parietal areas and in those with hemispheric differences most often in the right hemisphere.
  • (20) The first patient, an 82-year-old woman, developed a WPW syndrome suggesting posterior right ventricular preexcitation, a pattern which persisted for four months until her death.