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Example sentences for: crook

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To know its every crook and cranny is a daunting challenge, but concentrate on the ancient city around the Colosseum or the Vatican’s formidable complex, and come to know one age at a time.
"You're the most beautiful crook I've ever seen," he tells Zeta-Jones, toasting her with that voice while eating her up with those bandit-chieftain eyes--and you can picture sundry Golden Age Bond girls clucking, "I remember when he said that to me , sonny."
The RPH isn't bothered by the fact that he's been routed before (Alexander, Alan Keyes, Pete Wilson, Pat Buchanan, Steve Forbes, Jack Kemp); that he's the most hated man in politics (Newt Gingrich); that he's a national joke (Dan Quayle); that hardly anyone outside his home state has heard of him (John Ashcroft, Bob Smith, George Pataki, Tom Ridge, John Kasich, Tommy Thompson); that most voters will confuse him with an S&L crook (Frank Keating, the governor of Oklahoma--he's never heard of you, either); or that he might not get elected if he were the next-to-last American alive (Gary Bauer).
The hypocrite was neatly described as Hit's ill for da kettle crook tae ca da kettle black , while ` Caff [chaff] aye flees heicher [flies higher] dan guid coarn summed up a false friend who deserts one in trouble.
In case you were wondering: I am not a crook.