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Example sentences for: crooked

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Every child learned the right way to spell Mississippi: M, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, humpback, humpback, i .
Crooked officials engage in drug-smuggling and counterfeiting both to line their pockets and possibly even to prop up the struggling country's nuclear program.
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."
[From a review by George Stade of Christopher Lehmann-Haupt's A Crooked Man, in The New York Times, 21 February 1995.]
To avoid such asides, remember to Speak straight and sit crooked; or again, After the passing of incense there is no sitting , the message here echoed by a telling rhyme lost in translation.