bent1

 
Pronunciation: /bɛnt/
past and past participle of bend1

adjective

  • 1sharply curved or having an angle: a piece of bent wire
  • 2British informal dishonest; corrupt: a bent cop
  • 3British informal, derogatory homosexual.
  • 4 (bent on) determined to do or have: a missionary bent on saving souls a mob bent on violence

noun

  • a natural talent or inclination: a man of a religious bent she had no natural bent for literature

Phrases

bent out of shape

North American informal angry or agitated: he’d changed a few things around, and Glen was a little bent out of shape about it