The Oxford Thesaurus An A-Z Dictionary of Synonyms - bentadj.

1) curved, deflected, bowed, crooked, distorted: He complained to the waiter just because the fork was bent. 2) strange, weird, peculiar, twisted, deviant, warped, wry, awry, corrupt, corrupted; perverted, perverse, abnormal: You'd be bent, too, if you'd been in prison for fifteen years. 3) dishonest, crooked, illegal: That share deal sounds a bit bent to me: I'll pass. 4) determined, intent, set, resolved, resolute, decided, set: Garvey is bent on running in the marathon, despite his sprained ankle. --n. 5) turn, inclination, direction, disposition, predisposition, tendency, bias, leaning, proclivity, propensity, partiality, prejudice; ability, aptitude, talent, gift: She wished to follow the bent of her own taste. He has a natural bent for music.