crooked deal
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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
He dwelt particularly on her hardness, for surely no other sort of woman could possibly have helped to engineer the crooked deal which Andrew Thorne and his daughter had so successfully put across.
From Shoe-Bar Stratton by George W. Gage
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 Upton Sinclair
For did not Little Hughey know all about the crooked deal by which the worthy J. Cuthbert had ousted old Nat Lawson from the presidency of the Interprovincial Loan & Savings Company?
From Every Man for Himself by Hopkins Moorhouse
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