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The word sought may be "crooked" (bent, not straight, or slang for dishonest).
The likely word is "crooked" (not straight, or dishonest).The similar word is the noun crock, a container.
The stereotypically crooked walking stick is the shillelagh (from the Irish sail éille).
The rhyme is :"M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-ICrooked letter-crooked letter-Ihumpback-humpback-I."There was also a song once that explained it to young spellers. The refrain was :"M-I-S, S-I-S, S-I-P-P-I".(Another hard name is Cincinnati, which is easy to remember : just drop the last two letters from CIN-CIN-NATION.)
The adjective meaning "bent" or "not straight" is spelled crooked.(also used to mean illegal or dishonest)
You left out an "s"... it's Mississippi (with a capital M). For fun: Mi crooked letter crooked letter i crooked letter crooked letter i humpback humpback i ...or you drop out of school in the second grade.
The antonym for crooked is straight.
Comparative: more crooked Superlative: most crooked
There Was a Crooked Man... was created in 1970.
Twisted or curved are about the same meaning as crooked.
crooked nose and crooked mouth
A synonym for "crooked" is "bent" or "curved."