crooked deal
Example Sentences
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One would almost feel better if the deal was crooked because a crooked deal would be the exception.
From Washington Times ● May 23, 2017
According to Satterlee, Pierpont merely lent the money used in this crooked deal, taking only a normal commission for himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
I feel sorry for you, but you can't imagine how painful it is to us to think that Mathilde came so near to being mixed up with a crooked deal like that—Mathilde, of all people.
From The Happiest Time of Their Lives by Alice Duer Miller
He had planned to carry this thing through as a large joke, and here he was mixed up in a crooked deal if ever there was one.
From The City of Fire by Grace Livingston Hill
"It's a crooked deal, then," says I. And right there I began to get a glimmer of the kind of game she was up against.
From Shorty McCabe by F. Vaux (Francis Vaux) Wilson
