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

Anyway, he had rivals, and he made a crooked deal with some of the railroad people— gave them stock you know—and got rebates.

From Samuel the Seeker by Sinclair, Upton

And the very reason why your man Olsen was inclined to suspect Stephen Gresham was that he had had trouble with Rivers about a crooked deal Rivers had put over on him.

From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam

If he give the farmers a crooked deal, I hadn't a thing to do with that.

From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by Raine, William MacLeod