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Example sentences for: crooks

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The question has always been: What kind of crooks are they?
It combines the music video syntax of Trainspotting with the jokey nihilist bloodletting of Pulp Fiction . You're supposed to root for the hapless amateur crooks over the platoons of murderous professional ones, and to watch as, with farcical precision, the bad guys end up accidentally blowing one another away.
Surely it cannot have surprised anyone to learn that Russia is run by crooks.
Altered or obliterated by crooks or pranksters?
The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."