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The next word ending in -ed is crooked. Besides crook as a noun (designating a criminal or a shepherd's stick) there's the verb to crook (meaning to bend) and the adjective crooked characterising an object as bent or twisted or a person as dishonest. The adjective (and the noun derived from it) is pronounced /krʊkɪd/, /krʊkəd/, the verb form crooked follows the usual rule and is pronounced /krʊkt/.

A few sample sentences:

1. your tie's crooked;
2. she crooked a finger at him;
3. these crooked streets are a maze;
4. all of them are crooked;
5. he crooked his elbow;
6. Marcus Duvall is a crooked cop;
7. braces will correct the crooked smile;
8. the picture's crooked to one side;
9. the crooked shall be made straight (Isaiah 40:4);