Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

contortion; twist, crookedness &c (obliquity) 217; grimace; deformity; malformation, malconformation†; harelip; monstrosity, misproportion†, want of symmetry, anamorphosis†; ugliness &c 846; talipes†; teratology. asymmetry; irregularity. V. distort, contort, twist, warp, wrest, writhe, make faces, deform, misshape. Adj. distorted &c v.; out of shape, irregular, asymmetric, unsymmetric†, awry, wry, askew, crooked; not true, not straight; on one side, crump†, deformed; harelipped; misshapen, misbegotten; misproportioned†, ill proportioned; ill-made; grotesque, monstrous, crooked as a ram's horn; camel backed, hump backed, hunch backed, bunch backed, crook backed; bandy; bandy legged, bow legged; bow kneed, knock kneed; splay footed, club footed; round shouldered; snub nosed; curtailed of one's fair proportions; stumpy &c (short) 201; gaunt &c (thin) 203; bloated &c 194; scalene; simous†; taliped†, talipedic†. Adv. all manner of ways. Phr. crooked as a Virginia fence [U.S.].