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
Ergo, Mr. Shandon, it's a fair bet that starting with a crooked deal he has gone on playing a crooked game.
From The Short Cut by Johnson, Frank Tenney
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.
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
