crook

He told the crook, still on the line, he was driving to the police station.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 13, 2026

I hooked my arm through the crook of his, turning back toward the empty streets and our stuffy Airbnb.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 19, 2026

It was late, and the store was out of disposable bags, so I tucked some of the loot into my dance bag and cradled the rest in the crook of my arm.

From Salon ● Jan. 1, 2026

Hemlock is a small town located in the crook of the Michigan mitten, between the thumb and the fingers.

From Barron's ● Nov. 7, 2025

“First timer, eh?” he asks, offering me the crook of his elbow.

From "Legendary Frybread Drive-In" by Cynthia Leitich Smith

If crooks have access to some of an individual’s personal information, that’s another way to sharpen the hook.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 5, 2026

In the final entry on her blog, posted barely half an hour before she was killed, Caruana Galizia wrote: "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate".

From Barron's ● Sep. 3, 2026

It says this means the number of "crooks" in the community has grown by 1,000 in just three months.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

“I mean, they need to be able to do that. But they just, you know, they need to pay more attention to the crooks than people trying to make an honest living.”

From Salon ● Jun. 2, 2026

She suspected that these days, even the innocent and the round-eyed could be crockery crooks, or cream-bun cravers, or thieving diabetics cruising Ayemenem for imported insulin.

From "The God of Small Things" by Arundhati Roy

Under Mitchell, Pecora showed, the nation’s largest bank had become an impeccably groomed racketeering enterprise, dressing up crooked enterprises as gilt-edged to sell their bonds and stocks to unsuspecting buyers.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2026

In 2019, the IRS told Murrin she owed unpaid tax, penalties and interest for income-tax returns the crooked accountant filed from 1993 to 1999.

From MarketWatch ● Jun. 25, 2026

"They're crooked," he continued, "just like you're crooked."

From BBC ● Jun. 7, 2026

Mr. Pappalardo has a novelist’s gifts for description and pacing, and his material—greedy entrepreneurs, crafty moonshiners, crooked politicos and jaded cops—is material any writer would welcome.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 24, 2026

Autumn hesitates, before giving me a crooked smile.

From "Kwame Crashes the Underworld" by Craig Kofi Farmer

Short as trees go, it has a hunkered-down look, its branches starting low to the ground and crooking and knotting as they rise.

From New York Times ● May 10, 2021

He was having an almost violently good time, it appeared, kissing women on the cheek, crooking his arm around his friends’ necks.

From The New Yorker ● Jun. 24, 2019

A trio of elderly gentlemen, seated outside at a cafe, urge us on, crooking thumbs in the uphill direction.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 10, 2019

So police officers, crooking a single finger, have ordered scores of drivers to the curb for breaking the law and issued them a fine for $130.

From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2012

I say, crooking my head against the phone, which is still partially concealed by my hood, and pretending to listen to him.

From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle