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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. crook

    In some cases a thing is spoken of as bent where the parts make an angle; but oftener to bend is understood to be to draw to or through a curve; as, to bend a bow. To submit or yield is to bend the mind humbly to another's wishes. To incline or influence is to bend another's wishes toward our own; to persuade is to draw them quite over. To warp is to bend silently through the whole fiber, as a board in the sun. To crook is to bend irregularly, as a crooked stick. Deflect, deviate, and diverge are said of any turning away; deviate commonly of a slight and gradual movement, diverge of a more sharp and decided one. To bias is to cut across the texture, or incline to one side; in figurative use always with an unfavorable import. Mold is a stronger work than bend; we may bend by a superior force that which still resists the constraint; as, a bent bow; we mold something plastic entirely to some desired form.

    Synonyms:
    bend, bias, bow, curve, deflect, deviate, diverge, incline, influence, mold, persuade, stoop, submit, turn, twine, twist, warp, yield

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. criminal, felon, crook, outlaw, malefactornoun

    someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime

    Synonyms:
    whitlow, twist, shepherd's crook, malefactor, bend, turn, felon, criminal, outlaw

  2. bend, crook, twist, turnnoun

    a circular segment of a curve

    "a bend in the road"; "a crook in the path"

    Synonyms:
    spin, felon, bend, routine, tour, outlaw, wind, bend dexter, turning, twist, crease, round, malefactor, whirl, bending, kink, braid, bit, flexure, crimp, turn of events, act, wrench, criminal, tress, pull, winding, plait, play, go, shepherd's crook, curve, number, construction, spell, good turn, fold, twirl, device, bout, plication, gimmick, turn, twisting, eddy

  3. crook, shepherd's crookverb

    a long staff with one end being hook shaped

    Synonyms:
    outlaw, twist, shepherd's crook, malefactor, bend, felon, criminal, turn

  4. crook, curveverb

    bend or cause to bend

    "He crooked his index finger"; "the road curved sharply"

    Synonyms:
    trend, twist, sheer, kink, slue, arc, wind, veer, cut, slew, curl, arch, swerve, curve

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Dictionary of English Synonymes5.0 / 1 vote

  1. crooknoun

    Synonyms:
    bend, flexure, curvature, turn

  2. crookverb

    Synonyms:
    bend, curve, incurvate, bow, inflect, make crooked

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. crooknoun

    Synonyms:
    bend, turn, curve, curvature, deflection, crosier, pothook, artifice, trick, subterfuge, ruse

  2. crookverb

    Synonyms:
    bend, curve, incurvate

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How to use crook in a sentence?

  1. Lakshheish M Patel:

    SBI securities trading terminal has gone whitewashed or blank at 11 am and it is a sign that market fall will take place now. Crook Brokers do it at the instruction of companies for their commission so that traders are not able to do transactions

  2. Ahn Chan-il:

    You can be a crook or be asked to lie. I have seen so many people lying and making mistakes on camera ... People only care about spicy stories.

  3. Richard Weeks:

    If things are crook at Muswellbrook and there’s no work at Bourke what do you do? If things are crook at Tallarook and there’s no work at Bourke what do you do! ?

  4. Lakshheish M Patel:

    Keeping SBI Securities as brokerage firm but have almost stopped investing in share market after realizing that brokerage firm cheats traders and all brokers are equally corrupt and crook who take small brokerage from traders and big commission from companies for helping organizations to loot money of investors and traders. Since am unemployed so seeing stock market operation for time pass purpose only and updating own observation to protect people

  5. Richard M. Nixon:

    I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I've earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I can say that in my years of public life that I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I've earned everything I've got.


Translations for crook

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  • المحتالArabic
  • извивка, гега, извивам, крадецBulgarian
  • Hirtenstab, krümmen, Ganove, Krücke, Krummstab, GaunerGerman
  • γκλίτσαGreek
  • torcer, torcedura, doblez, ratero, ladrona, ladrón, curvidad, ratera, curva, truhán, enchuecar, truhana, cayado, curvar, doblarSpanish
  • käyräsauva, konna, koukistaa, taive, rikollinenFinnish
  • courber, arnaqueur, courbe, escroc, houletteFrench
  • crúcaIrish
  • maling, bajinganIndonesian
  • þorpari, glæpamaður, hirðingjastafurIcelandic
  • pastorale, furfante, ladro, truffatore, vincastroItalian
  • კაუჭი, კავიGeorgian
  • ವಂಚಕKannada
  • skurkNorwegian
  • afzetster, bedrieger, zwendelaarster, bedriegster, oplichtster, oplichter, afzetter, zwendelaarDutch
  • ladra, ladrãoPortuguese
  • вор, изгиб, сгибать, плутRussian
  • lopovSerbo-Croatian
  • lopovSlovene

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