The line between a country's national team and its top clubs can be a bit crooked.
Jessica was a plain girl with fair hair and pale skin and an unfortunately crooked smile.
Many appointments, including Mr Reyes's, are partly in the hands of (allegedly crooked) independent commissions.
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Some of the floorboards were crooked, and I had to be careful when walking around.
Most were painted a faded gray, some with their wooden cross braces crooked or missing.
The ultimate sanction open to Mr Griffiths is to throw crooked traders off the site.
When families and community groups reported that crooked buyers and lenders were preying on homebuyers, nothing.
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Conner tracks down clues that let him deduce the name of the crooked company.
True, the back had been customised as a cedar-shingle hut, complete with a crooked stove-pipe.
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Unfortunately, the Trail does include the very private Crooked Stick, the best of the bunch.
Crooked executives should be punished: if they can't do some time, they shouldn't do the crime.
Sacking crooked-seeming officials has, for the World Bank, become a precondition for resuming lending.
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Weingarten represented the man Time magazine named one of the most crooked CEOs of all time.
Robert S. Langer , a trim 54-year-old man with a crooked smile, maintains a relatively tidy office.
The substance is pure pulp--crooked cops, greedy mobsters, seductive dames, shiny cars--but the style is delicately ironic.
The camera on the model we played with (which is very much a pre-production unit) was slightly crooked.
In India, however, too many crooked officials demand cash but fail to deliver their side of the bargain.
Cynics will argue that, since money is fungible, the crooked and corrupt will always find a tax haven.
In effect he is saying that he prefers to be thought of as colossally inept rather than crooked.
Individuals would hire crooked appraisers to under-appraise a home, obtain a mortgage, then sell it at a much-higher price.
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Her husband has been kidnapped in Latin America, and a seemingly crooked local negotiator is handling the ransom bargaining.
The secret: Use fat, short, straight pipes rather than thin, long, crooked ones.
In 1996, he portrayed "Irish" Terry Conklin in "The Great White Hype, " a comedy about the crooked fight game.
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With an energetic performance by John Travolta, as a joyously crooked federal agent.
But there'd been some mix-up, or crooked dealing, and we were flying empty.
Less obviously, companies backed by crooked cash may be able to undercut innocent rivals, forcing them out of business.
Ty Cobb sat in a corner, his smile a crooked line, and said, I scuffed the ball, my friend.
Every last crooked rock of the place had at some point seated the bony arse of some hypochondriacal epiphany-seeker.
The FBI had been tipped off in 2004 that Ms Crispin was crooked, so they started to watch her.
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He smiles through what are, for an American, impressively crooked and stained teeth.
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