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Example sentences for: crooks

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The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."
In fact, it's the older gangster pictures that romanticize the charismatic crooks portrayed by Bogart, Cagney, Robinson, et al.
The New York Times applauds Pol Pot's demise but regrets that crooks, schemers, and butchers evidently will continue to run the country.
Surely it cannot have surprised anyone to learn that Russia is run by crooks.
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.