crocked

Example Sentences

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Whatever the Westminster orthodoxy, under such a crocked system ownership matters.

From The Guardian • May 14, 2013

Fletcher has scored a third of their goals and he is crocked until August.

From The Guardian • Apr. 5, 2013

Former Cardiff right-back Adam Matthews had been handed his competitive debut for Celtic in place of the injured Mark Wilson, while Daniel Majstorovic was in for the crocked Glenn Loovens.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2011

It might have been the 32-year-old lining up against Australia in Durban on Sunday with Adler crocked.

From The Guardian • Jun. 11, 2010

Mrs. Helm took out her white cambric handkerchief, and rubbed it on the inside of the pot, and it crocked it!

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin