crooked deal
Example Sentences
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One would almost feel better if the deal was crooked because a crooked deal would be the exception.
From Washington Times • May 23, 2017
According to Satterlee, Pierpont merely lent the money used in this crooked deal, taking only a normal commission for himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yes, that's one good thing in his favor—he never let a crooked deal pass in his place.
From Money Magic A Novel by Garland, Hamlin
I feel sorry for you, but you can't imagine how painful it is to us to think that Mathilde came so near to being mixed up with a crooked deal like that—Mathilde, of all people.
From The Happiest Time of Their Lives by Miller, Alice Duer
He dwelt particularly on her hardness, for surely no other sort of woman could possibly have helped to engineer the crooked deal which Andrew Thorne and his daughter had so successfully put across.
From Shoe-Bar Stratton by Gage, George W.
