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
If he give the farmers a crooked deal, I hadn't a thing to do with that.
From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by Raine, William MacLeod
He had planned to carry this thing through as a large joke, and here he was mixed up in a crooked deal if ever there was one.
From The City of Fire by Hill, Grace Livingston
I got on to the fact that I was getting the bad end of a crooked deal in that card game....
From The Shooting of Dan McGrew, A Novel Based on the Famous Poem of Robert Service by Dana, Marvin Hill
