Word Finder - crooks

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A bend; turn; curve; curvature; a flexure.

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She held the baby in the crook of her arm.

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A bending of the knee; a genuflection.

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A bent or curved part; a curving piece or portion (of anything).

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the crook of a cane

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A lock or curl of hair.

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A gibbet.

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A support beam consisting of a post with a cross-beam resting upon it; a bracket or truss consisting of a vertical piece, a horizontal piece, and a strut.

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A shepherd's crook; a staff with a semi-circular bend ("hook") at one end used by shepherds.

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A bishop's staff of office.

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An artifice; a trick; a contrivance.

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A person who steals, lies, cheats or does other dishonest or illegal things; a criminal.

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A pothook.

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A small tube, usually curved, applied to a trumpet, horn, etc., to change its pitch or key.

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To bend, or form into a hook.

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He crooked his finger toward me.

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To become bent or hooked.

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To turn from the path of rectitude; to pervert; to misapply; to twist.

Liars, murders, and corporate crooks are running the government.

On Christmas morning, a $ 600,000 reward is offered for anyone who catches the crooks.

Another scam is when crooks look for a senior "mark."

Both were petty crooks at the illegal end of the jewelry trade at the time of their arrests.

This behavior is commonplace following other disasters, and there are plenty of crooks who operate fraudulent charities on an everyday basis as well.

Angels, stars, sheep, shepherd's crooks, and crowns are all excellent choices.

A lot of store managers are now resigned to the fact that their own efforts at beating the crooks will not be supported.

Starfall a world on the edge, where crooks and smugglers hide in the gloomy shadows and modern technology refuses to work.

You must distinguish the crooks, opportunists and lechers involved in religious Taoism from the Taoist sages.

Bishop Hurst, by his splendid devotion in 1876-1879, recovered the endowment of Drew Theological Seminary, lost by the failure in 1876 of Daniel Drew, its founder; and with McClintock and Crooks he improved the quality of Methodist scholarship. The American University (Methodist Episcopal) at Washington, D.C., for postgraduate work was the outcome of his projects, and he was its chancellor from 1891 to his death.

People like Lucian are hated by modern Christians for exposing the scams of some of the early Christian crooks.

Make your way toward a gate, passing more shepherds crooks, ( see picture right) and out onto the road.

You had to watch them, some of the small-time car dealers dealing in secondhand cars, God they were crooks.

But rather than choosing a product, the crooks in this case press for coin return and the machine returns a 500 yen coin.

It took the police department almost three years to overpower the underground circle of crooks.

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Honest himself, he believed implicitly in the honesty of others and became the tool of political crooks and social reactionaries.

Like the small time crooks he was to feature in his films, he supported himself by petty theft.

More car crime - Don't give them the opportunity Car crooks will nick anything - don't give them the opportunity.

I haven't visited a dentist in four years (fruit gums extract dodgy molars better than most Harley Street crooks ).

Richard Head in his Life and Death of Mother Shipton (1684) says, "the body was of indifferent height, her head was long, with sharp fiery eyes, her nose of an incredible and unproportionate length, having many crooks and turnings, adorned with many strange pimples of divers colours, as red, blue and dirt, which like vapours of brimstone gave such a lustre to her affrighted spectators in the dead time of the night, that one of them confessed several times in my hearing that her nurse needed no other light to assist her in her duties" Allowing for the absurdity of this account, it certainly seems (if any reliance is to be placed on the so-called authorities) that the child was phenomenally plain and deformed.

Crooks, whose Life of Bishop Matthew Simpson (New York, 1890) should be consulted.

With George Richard Crooks (1822-1897), his colleague at Dickinson College and in1880-1897professor of historical theology at Drew Seminary, McClintock edited several elementary textbooks in Latin and Greek (of which some were republished in Spanish), based on the pedagogical principle of "imitation and constant repetition."