Sentence examples for crook at from inspiring English sources

If a man fails to look you in the eye, he's probably not a crook at all but a dentist mentally rebuilding your mouth.

She was born, the fourth of five children of Edward and his music-loving wife Rose, nee Crook, at the close of the first world war in Coleford, on the edge of the Forest of Dean, not far from Newnham, where Denis's maternal grandfather was the stationmaster, signalman and ticket collector.

"It's very elaborate, and it's bizarre", Detective Superintendent Mick Niland of the Queensland Police said of the charges brought against Crook at a press conference Friday.

"Crooks are going to be crooks at any company," Mr. Kozlowski said.

By 'crooks,' I don't mean crooks at all; I mean former Secret Service men.

Julian Gardner, 53, suffered multiple injuries after apparently disturbing crooks at isolated Bush Barn Farm in Robertsbridge, East Sussex.

His left forearm is as thin as a child's, and crooked at the wrist.

Angelina Jolie's rogue leg on Oscar night, crooked at the perfect angle and totally preposterous for that.

Whatever the measure, people here often dismiss the police as bunglers at best and crooks at worst.

Tracey Ullman is delightful in Woody Allen's Small Time Crooks, at first sensible, then sadly social climbing.

In Diepsloot, where a sea of shanties covers much of the expanse, police officers are often derided as bunglers at best and crooks at worst.