crook kneed

With crooked or bent knees, IMG:content-1361.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1362.png:[blocks in formation] "They have corrupted themselves, perverse and crooked generation."-- Deut . xxxii. 5. †2. Of things: (1) Perverse, untoward, not straightforward. "But whom, I ask, of individual souls, Have ye withdrawn from pa ion's crooked ways?" Words worth: Excursion , bk. v. (2) Deceitful, untrustworthy, malignant. "Calm, thinking villains, whom no faith could fix, Of crooked counsels and dark politics." Pope : Temple of Fame , 410, 411,