Sentence examples for to crooked from inspiring English sources
noun
A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.
- She held the baby in the crook of her arm.
Workers clamber on to crooked cabs to strap orange tarpaulins over the loads.
The Mafia is thought to have made countless millions by selling votes to crooked politicians in Sicily.
The law containing this open invitation to crooked cash has since been shelved.Taken to the cleanersUnfortunately, some of this is not as encouraging as it sounds.
Clearly, putting an end to corruption — to kickbacks and nepotism, to crooked judges and policemen, to delinquent bureaucrats and drug lords — is Mexico's greatest challenge.
But because everything that happens in Sicily seems tied to crooked deals, often in chummy collusion with the Mafia, the investigation is soon tied in knots.
And he returned to Crooked Hillary, who wasn't a victim and who destroyed her cell phones "with a hammer": "She complains, complains".
What can you say that Tokhtakhounov got caught trying to corrupt the crooked?
The government attitude was that it would do whatever it took to bring crooked bank executives to justice.
Unable to raise enough money, Drobny unwittingly turned the company over to a crooked investor who tried to fund it partly by fleecing a charity.
As we continue to give unequivocal support to a crooked government, our credibility is greatly diminished and the difficulty of our mission greatly increased.
IN David Simon's five-season HBO crime drama "The Wire", the mayor of Baltimore was an ambitious white politician who left city hall to a crooked council president in order to become governor of Maryland.
