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

Doncaster, meanwhile, want Scunthorpe's soon-to-be-out-of-contract Joe Murphy to replace the crocked Neil Sullivan.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2011

Hogan was better than ever, while I had fallen away to the kind of man who Blackheath ask to play for them when half their team are crocked and the other half have influenza.

From Godfrey Marten, Undergraduate by Turley, Charles