crook
153
3.9
- noun
- /krʊk/
- Offensive
:
delincuente
- The detective worked tirelessly to catch the notorious crook who had been stealing from local businesses.
- white-collar crook
You know my point out also, the rich were crooks, Entrepreneurs were crooks.
- You know my point out also, the rich were crooks, Entrepreneurs were crooks.
- He was able to kill crooks quickly.
- I can't tell is a loose affiliation of crooks, if you like.
- That's what you get for being a crook.
- It's pretty easy to convince the rest of the scientific community they're all crooks, right?
- I see that I am not a crook.
- You know, the Wizard of Oz, he might be a crook.
- My dad liked him, but he was wasn't really happy that he was a crook.
- And second of all, most people in Congress don't think of themselves as crooks.
- You know, a guy called Fred Levin, a crook.
- For some reason I thought like all the films, all the crooks that like, got the broken noses and whatever.
- Well, that's all well and good if you're going out to meet, meet a bunch of crooks that are not particularly suspicious.
- So it's not just crooks, bad people that choose to cross the line.
- Wedding dresses be stolen, stolen outright bandit stolen robbery, daylight daylight robbery crooks crooks.
Examples
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Lou told me you know everybody in New York, Bernzy: all the crooks and all the cops...
Fiction book (1992) -
If Blagojevich was such a crook, he demanded, why was he broke?
Academic text (2011) -
You see, not everyone is just a crook like you.
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But we know what a crook he is.
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No, I'm a crook for life.
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The next day I'm the biggest crook that the country has ever seen.
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Are you writing a book or are you catching a crook?
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A liar and a crook.
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So it's not just crooks, bad people that choose to cross the line.
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These people are just crooks.
Synonyms
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2.1
A person who has committed a crime or broken the law
754
1.0
A person who takes someone else's things without permission
129
5.9
A person who behaves badly or dishonestly yet is often liked by others
112
2.6
A person who breaks the rules or lies to get an advantage
55
2.6
A person who acts dishonestly to gain an unfair advantage
51
6.5
A person who behaves dishonestly and hurts others by lying or stealing
47
4.7
A person who tricks people by gaining their trust to get their money
40
4.8
A person who tricks people by gaining their trust to take their money or valuables
20
4.0
A person who tricks others to take their money or things
16
9.1
A person who tricks others to get their money or things
15
7.5
A person who does bad things to hurt other people
15
5.4
A person who tricks people to take their money
14
9.9
A person, often a lawyer or politician, who acts dishonestly to get what they want
14
9.9
A dishonest person who tricks or harms other people
4
4.6
A person who takes things that belong to others without permission
3
8.8
A person who breaks the law or does something wrong
3
9.2
A person who tricks others to get their money
1
9.2
A person who steals things
1
7.9
A person who gets money by lying to or tricking people
1
8.4
A person who secretly plans and helps with illegal actions
1
9.9
A person who cheats others to get money or things
1
7.8
A person who tricks or cheats people, often as a joke
A person who steals things secretly
A person who illegally takes other people's things
A person who tricks people to get their money or things
A person who cheats others to get small amounts of money
A person who tricks others to take their money
A person who takes money unfairly by accepting bribes
Antonyms
Idioms
Compounds
How Dishonest
Surface Forms
Etymology
Crook meaning a dishonest person comes from the same old word krókr, which meant 'hook' or 'bend'. A helpful way to remember it is to think of someone 'crooked', not straight in their behaviour, so a crook is a person who cheats.