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.
Jeff Goldblum is the crooked, drug-dealing Jewish lawyer who becomes his partner in crime.
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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Zealous reporters who uncovered dirt on crooked politicians soon found their stories being spiked.
Unfortunately, the Trail does include the very private Crooked Stick, the best of the bunch.
This raises an interesting question: is Khuzami sincere in his effort to tackle crooked Chinese accounting?
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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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On the one hand, the vote is so crooked as to be almost meaningless.
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.
Ken Saro-Wiwa was hanged because he was said to have had some of those crooked chiefs murdered.
's 'hands-off' policy towards what West sources say will be a 'crooked' election could increase any security risks.
The camera on the model we played with (which is very much a pre-production unit) was slightly crooked.
At a recent football match supporters unveiled a huge banner with the words, "death to the crooked noses".
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.
Since independence in 1960, the country has been looted by venal generals or misruled by equally crooked civilians.
In effect he is saying that he prefers to be thought of as colossally inept rather than crooked.
Much of Indonesia's forestry ministry which claims control over 75% of the country's area and its logging industry are crooked.
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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.
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