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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.
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."
Raves, however, for Nicolas Cage's performance as the sleazy, brown polyester clad Rick Santoro, a crooked local cop: Jay Carr of the Boston Globe glows, "[Cage] suggests an oven-fresh, cheese-filled, glazed meatloaf."
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.
Every child learned the right way to spell Mississippi: M, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, crooked letter, crooked letter, i, humpback, humpback, i .