| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | criminal, thief |
| Synonyms: | cheat, filcher, knave, pilferer, purloiner, racketeer, robber, rogue, scoundrel, shark, shyster, swindler, villain |
| Antonyms: | law, police |
| Main Entry: | angle |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shape formed by two lines meeting at a point |
| Synonyms: | V, Y, bend, corner, crook, crotch, cusp, decline, divergence, dogleg, edge, elbow, flare, flection, flexure, fork, incline, intersection, knee, nook, notch, obliquity, point, slant, turn, turning, twist |
| Main Entry: | bandit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thief |
| Synonyms: | brigand, criminal, crook, desperado, forager, gangster, gunperson, highwayperson, hijacker, holdup person, hooligan, marauder, mobster, outlaw, pillager, pirate, plunderer, racketeer, raider, ravager, robber, villain |
| Antonyms: | law, police |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | curve |
| Synonyms: | angle, arc, bending, bow, corner, crook, curvation, curvature, deflection, deviation, flection, flexure, hook, lean, loop, round, sag, shift, tack, tilt, turn, twist, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | line |
| Main Entry: | bend |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | form or cause a curve |
| Synonyms: | angle away, angle off, arch, bow, buckle, camber, careen, circle, contort, crimp, crinkle, crook, crouch, curl, deflect, deform, detour, double, droop, flex, genuflect, hook, incline, incurvate, lean, loop, pervert, round, spiral, stoop, swerve, tilt, turn, twist, veer, verge, warp, waver, wilt, wind, yaw, zigzag |
| Antonyms: | straighten |
| Main Entry: | bow |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bend over |
| Synonyms: | arch, bob, cower, crook, curtsy, curve, debase, dip, do obeisance, droop, duck, genuflect, hunch, incline, nod, round, stoop |
| Main Entry: | burglar |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who steals |
| Synonyms: | cat burglar, crook, filcher, housebreaker, midnighter, owl, picklock, pilferer, porch-climber, prowler, robber, safecracker, sneakthief, thief |
| Main Entry: | cheat |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who fools others |
| Synonyms: | bluff, charlatan, chiseler, con artist, confidence operator, conniver, cozener, crook, deceiver, decoy, defrauder, dodger, double-crosser, double-dealer, enticer, fake, hypocrite, impostor, inveigler, jockey, masquerader, pretender, quack, rascal, rogue, scammer, shark, sharper, shyster, swindler, trickster |
| Main Entry: | claw |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nail of animal; tool shaped like nail of an animal |
| Synonyms: | barb, cant hook, clapperclaw, crook, fang, fingernail, grapnel, grappler, hook, manus, nail claw, nipper, paw, pincer, retractile, spur, talon, tentacle, unguis, ungula |