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Example sentences for: crooked

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The statistics might seem cold, but it's impossib le to remain complacent after meeting someone like Katherine -- or a family who has been left homeless by an illegal eviction, a senior who lost his home to foreclosure from a crooked loan transaction, or a domestic violence victim unable to navigate the courts to get a restraining order.
[From a review by George Stade of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's A Crooked Man, in The New York Times, 21 February 1995.]
And there is something to startle you in Leigh's crooked, bittersweet little comedy Career Girls . It's called Katrin Cartlidge, and every director should have one--and build an altar to it.
The NYT reports that a surprising witness appeared before a NYC City Council hearing on police reform: former NYPD whistleblowing cop Frank Serpico, who called for an independent police monitoring board to investigate police wrongdoing and "create an atmosphere where the crooked cop fears the honest cop, and not the other way around."
Here you will discover a labyrinth of narrow, crooked streets, cobbled alleyways, decaying old houses, former palaces, fish stalls, and bars totally unknown to tourists.