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Sentence count:129+9Posted:2016-12-13Updated:2020-07-24
Synonym: bendcriminalcurvegangsterhooklawbreakerthiefSimilar words: brookroomroofcropprooftroopdroopcrossMeaning: [krʊk]  n. 1. someone who has committed (or been legally convicted of) a crime 2. a circular segment of a curve 3. a long staff with one end being hook shaped. v. bend or cause to bend. 
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31. A real crook, but a fascinating article.
32. What do you think I am, some two-bit crook?
33. Glover felt hung up in the crook of a tree.
34. General Crook, who had died earlier that year, would surely have had contempt for the whole business.
35. An electronics specialist called Colin Crook set up Zynar three years ago as a subsidiary of the Rank leisure group.
36. Thorn is determined to prove that Bilko is not just a con artist but a crook.
37. The Nixon lawyers confirmed the under-lying suspicions of the country-that lawyer was synonymous with shyster and crook.
38. The spent kick slaps down near your leading foot and you hook it away with the crook of your ankle.
39. And the former petty crook had no previous record for violence.
40. The surgeries at Crook, Peterlee, Consett and Chester-le-Street reopened 16 months ago on a trial basis for half-a-day each week.
41. Ashton demonstrated Harlequin's technical expertise when he was transformed into Colas, a farmer, dancing with his shepherd's crook.
42. By hook or by crook, football is being called to account for the years of profligacy.
43. Enter Templar, a master thief recruited by the aspiring czar to obtain the formula by hook or crook.
44. By hook or by crook make sure that two members of staff make visits during the working day.
45. Wearing the Lord of the Isles tartan, he used a crook to support the knee recently operated on for cartilage damage.
46. People have accused me of being a crook, but I didn't take any money that wasn't mine.
47. Carey stood up, the fish held in the crook of his arm, as you would hold an infant.
48. When David Hale claims he was pressured into making illegal loans,[sentencedict.com/crook.html] he is branded a crook and a liar.
49. Collins called the governor a crook and said he should be removed from office.
50. The crook was given a reference but ran out of luck when his new bosses caught him fiddling £60 million.
51. Big osier ones, flat, that you could crook over your arm or set on the ground.
52. If she set her mind on something, then she had to acquire it, by hook or by crook.
53. They had then walked the short distance to Park Lane, her hand in the crook of James's arm.
54. Crook in particular was anxious to leave the ground floor flat because his windows had been smashed and he had been attacked.
55. Let any crook try to find me, I said to myself, when I go to ground in Uulaa-la.
56. A composite of the crook is built piece by piece.
57. He carried his jacket in the crook of his arm.
58. He was an arrogant man who thought he had only to crook his finger and she would come running.
59. Mortified, she turned her face and hid it in the crook of her arm.
60. This type of cougar has a distinctive crook in its tail.
More similar words: brookroomroofcropprooftroopdroopcrosscrowdcropsmaroonrootedbroochuprootcrop upacrosscrouchbedroomcross outcrowdedbathroommushroomcourtroomhit the roofget acrosscronyismclassroomcookhooklook
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