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crook

noun as in criminal, thief

verb as in bend, angle

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At Martín García Island, Argentina, a series of crags amid the Río de la Plata delta, she tries to make sense of crooked crosses cast from a single mold.

During their second-half slide, that dynamic had prevented them from working around injuries and mechanical flaws from much of the lineup, or finding alternative ways to build big innings and hang crooked numbers.

Really loving someone means appreciating their idiosyncrasies, like “their little 11 line or a little crooked tooth — these little imperfections that become so beautiful to you.”

That holds regardless of how crooked a show’s megachurch culture is depicted to be because its true purpose is rarely explored.

From Salon

He was deep and surprisingly tall, though crooked and bald, and his robes hung long.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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