He needed a schemer, someone used to plotting and crooked ways of thinking.

The changes began to include speed as the ship worked its crooked way down toward the planet.

"I suppose I've adopted my husband's crooked way of looking at things."

He liked, if I may put it so, doing things the crooked way.

If I choose to serve men in a crooked way, what necessity is there for me to leave the country of my parents?

"If there is any crooked way of getting a thing done my dad will think of it!"

There was no way of knowing what lay back in those crooked ways.

In a crooked way, it was very nice: lots of layers.

He was silent for a moment, then he smiled in a crooked way.

For more than a Spell they followed the little lane as it made its crooked way through the city.