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
And for a little thing like that you're willing to give me my honest share of a crooked deal!
From Otherwise Phyllis by Charles Dana Gibson
But I don't mix into his personal quarrels, unless I see him getting a crooked deal.
From The Gringos by Anton Otto Fischer
Kennedy, having invited crooked dealing by his remark about the rake-off, was being approached about another crooked deal.
From The Social Gangster by Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
