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Example sentences for: crooks

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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.
An article claims that Medicare fraud artists, including Russian crooks, bilk the government of billions of dollars per year.
Altered or obliterated by crooks or pranksters?
The question has always been: What kind of crooks are they?
The New York Times applauds Pol Pot's demise but regrets that crooks, schemers, and butchers evidently will continue to run the country.