Sentence examples for crooks with from inspiring English sources

She added: "The people behind this are crooks with no feelings who are just after other people's money.

Mr. Elder took particular joy in drawing grubby-looking crooks with no talent for crime, like Melvin Mole; parody ads; and caricatures of public and show-business figures.

After hearing of the interview, the district attorney's office phoned in to serve Mr. Crooks with a subpoena over his refusal to release his original videotape.

The perception of police officers as crooks with badges has ignited violence in various places in Mexico in recent months, including a riot by hundreds of people in Tepito.

As is the case in these types of books, the Box is a treasure of such magnitude that by rights it should be entrusted to a private army rather than a small boy, and it isn't long before a gang of crooks with a rather magical bent, led by the dark Abner Brown, are on its trail and menacing Kay and his cousins.

Breslin directs his anger at many targets, including United States immigration policy and the bureaucratic inertia of the city's Buildings Department, but he saves his most venomous attacks for the developers, crooks with blueprints, and the Giuliani administration, which valued their support too highly.

We say: A crook with a book habit – nice.

The roly-poly crook with shoulder-length scruffy hair had been an eye-witness to the stabbing.

Mostly he is asked about the distance between the comic roles he's known for and playing Bernie Rose, a small-time crook with a big penchant for violence.

But he anchors this picaresque yarn with sheer charisma, playing Toplis as a troubled but twinkling anti-hero, a cold-eyed crook with a roguish charm.

With a month to go before Christmas, shoppers spin through Soho like plastic bags in a high wind, their arms crooked with hanging totes.