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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Crooked

Crooked as a snake with the colic.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams

Crooked as a dog’s hind leg.
—Anonymous

Crooked as a gimlet.
—Anonymous

Crooked as a ram’s horn.
—Anonymous

Crooked as Crawley brook.
—Anonymous

Crooked as Robin Hood’s bow.
—Anonymous

So crooked he could hide behind a corkscrew.
—Anonymous

So crooked he could sleep in a roundhouse.
—Anonymous

Crooked as the streets of Boston.
—Arlo Bates

Crooked runs
Like a Turk verse along a scimitar.
—Robert Browning

Crooked as the letter Z.
—Francis Grose (Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue)

As crooked as a cammocke.
—John Lyly

Crooked as an auger.
—Otheman Stevens