crocked

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Just the one change in personnel for France after their Ireland win as Jonathan Danty replaces the crocked Gabin Villiere in the starting XV.

From The Guardian • Feb. 26, 2022

Former Cardiff right-back Adam Matthews had been handed his competitive debut for Celtic in place of the injured Mark Wilson, while Daniel Majstorovic was in for the crocked Glenn Loovens.

From BBC • Aug. 7, 2011

Doncaster, meanwhile, want Scunthorpe's soon-to-be-out-of-contract Joe Murphy to replace the crocked Neil Sullivan.

From The Guardian • Mar. 2, 2011

And, while we're asking questions, what exactly was the point of the January signing of González, a crocked 27-year-old one-cap-five-years-ago Colombian fourth-choice?

From The Guardian • Apr. 26, 2010

Mrs. Helm took out her white cambric handkerchief, and rubbed it on the inside of the pot, and it crocked it!

From Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West by Steward, Austin