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Example sentences for: crooks

How can you use “crooks” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

An article claims that Medicare fraud artists, including Russian crooks, bilk the government of billions of dollars per year.
The latter is unearned and knee-jerk: "They're all a bunch of crooks."
The question has always been: What kind of crooks are they?
Surely it cannot have surprised anyone to learn that Russia is run by crooks.
Altered or obliterated by crooks or pranksters?