bent fingers
Not straight phalanges
Bent fingers are fingers that curve or angle away from their normal straight position, whether temporarily from gesturing or permanently from conditions like arthritis or injury.
The phrase describes a physical state rather than functioning as a fixed expression: His bent fingers struggled with the buttons.
She made a claw with bent fingers.
- crookedBent or dishonest
- curledFormed into coils
- gnarledTwisted and knotty
- arthriticHaving inflamed joints
- clawedHaving sharp hooked digits
grip · knuckles · joints · stiff · twisted · clenched · cramped · fist · death grip · grasp · clutch · swollen · bone spurs · rheumatoid · deformed · hooked · bony · tendons
- limb abnormalitiesamelia, polydactyly, missing limb, missing hand, missing toes
- Fingerspellingfingerspelling, ASL alphabet, handshapes, letter formation, hand signs