crook

Example Sentences

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The innocent-faced O’Connor excels at crooks and suckers and fittingly, his Jud describes himself as “young, dumb and full of Christ.”

From Los Angeles Times

Cooper had heard some police in Mexico were crooked, but he never imagined the government would ignore the takeover of a gold mine.

From Los Angeles Times

Hemlock is a small town located in the crook of the Michigan mitten, between the thumb and the fingers.

From Barron's

From a leg-stump line, the ball appeared to then move in the air in the opposite direction, past Cook's crooked grope to kiss the top of off stump.

From BBC

Sliwa, apparently relishing his 15 minutes of fame, called Adams a “crook” and said he himself had been offered $10 million to drop out of the race by unidentified billionaires.

From Salon