Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary
a. 1 Crooked(fig. also), bent, curved, winding, tortuous; vakraḥ paṃthā yadapi bhavataḥ prasthitasyottarā- śāṃ Me. 27; Ku. 3. 29.
2 Round about, indirect, evasive, circuitous, equivocation, ambiguous (as a speech); kimetairvakrabhaṇitaiḥ Ratn. 2; [Page0937-c+ 57] vakravākyaracanāramaṇīyaḥ… subhruvāṃ pravavṛte parihāsaḥ Śi. 10. 12; see vakrokti also.
3 Curled, curling, crisped (as hair).
4 Retrograde (as...
