Synonyms for crook
krʊkcrook

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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

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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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1. • Bend
   • Principal

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1. crooknoun

   Synonyms:
   bend, flexure, curvature, turn

2. crookverb

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

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1. crooknoun

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

2. crookverb

   Synonyms:
   bend, curve, incurvate

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1. List of paraphrases for "crook":

   swindler, thief, hustler, faker, bandit, fraudster, phoney, mobster, cheat, scoundrel, lacrosse, hoodlum, cheater, gangster

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How to use crook in a sentence?

1. 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.

2. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Profit & Loss statement, capital gain and ledger provided by stock brokerage firms to shares investors are largely misguiding and manipulated. SBI securities and other brokers are all crook

3. Lakshheish M Patel:

   Stock market is most likely to fall around 3 pm or between 2:55- 3:10 pm today and crook brokers like SBI securities and others will close down or difunct their trading platform function citing technical error and thus traders money will be looted

4. Richard Milhous Nixon:

   People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook. I earned everything I've got.

5. Eric Carlson:

   I think we're up to 30,000 meals, 35,000 meals, and that just with the small trucks we have, and by hook and by crook getting supplies.