Sentence examples for crooked use from inspiring English sources

The officer, using his discretion, scolded him, acting as though the man must have forgotten the crooked use of the small vases--as a crack pipe.

The nicknames that Goldman sharks tagged on their marks -- "muppets" and "hunting elephants" -- is reminiscent of Get Shorty and the Star Wars-themed nicknames that Enron crooks used as code for their swindles and "special purpose entities" (whose only "special purpose," it turned out, was to rip off employees, defraud investors and bilk consumers).

Her hope is that mobile and other technologies will expose the routes that crooks use to smuggle children across countries and borders.

Crooks use acetone — the active ingredient in nail-polish remover — to take the name of the payee and the amount off of an intercepted check, leaving just your signature on what is effectively now a blank check.

Online extortionists and other crooks use zombies to co-ordinate "denial of service" assaults and "spam" attacks that put their victims' servers and websites out of action by overwhelming them.

The scam is simple: crooks use stolen credit cards to buy their own fake ebooks for inflated prices and pocket the 60% commission.

Ransomware crooks use various hot-button clickbait to lure victims.

It's interesting to note that some of the very same techniques that today's high-tech crooks use don't differ that much from their counterparts from decades--or even centuries--ago.

A few factors do influence the relative success of robberies: the size of the gang, whether or not the crooks use guns and whether the bank has fast-rising security screens.

In a hurried, not very shapely concluding sequence he ties up some threads and tells us about a few of the characters in final titles — omitting, though, a high-comic piece of information: Hill was so determinedly crooked he used the new identity given him by the Witness Protection Program to start up a new life of thievery and was thrown out of the program.

It stated: "They allege that the fake sheikh was the real crook, using sophisticated entrapment and even creating crimes and fabricating evidence".