CROOK Synonyms

• an armed thief who is (usually) a member of a band

• a thief who enters a building with intent to steal

• weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous

• weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat

• someone who leads you to believe something that is not true

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• a deception for profit to yourself

• deprive somebody of something by deceit

• defeat someone through trickery or deceit

• engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud

• be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

• someone who takes spoils or plunder (as in war)

• someone who violates a trust by taking (money) for his own use

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• someone who attacks in search of booty

• a robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street)

• a thief who steals from the pockets or purses of others in public places

• a thief who steals without using violence

• someone who uses another person's words or ideas as if they were his own

• someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation

• a ship that is manned by pirates

• copy illegally; of published material

• take arbitrarily or by force

• someone who commits crimes for profit (especially one who obtains money by fraud or extortion)

• carry on illegal business activities involving crime

• a thief who steals from someone by threatening violence

• a person who swindles you by means of deception or fraud

• a criminal who takes property belonging to someone else with the intention of keeping it or selling it

• a swindler who exploits the confidence of his victim

• a town in central Oregon at the eastern foot of the Cascade Range

• a circular segment of a curve

• movement that causes the formation of a curve

• curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

• an angular or rounded shape made by folding

• diagonal line traversing a shield from the upper right corner to the lower left

• form a curve

• change direction

• cause (an object) to assume a crooked or angular form

• bend one's back forward from the waist on down

• turn from a straight course, fixed direction, or line of interest

• bend a joint

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

• bringing or deserving severe rebuke or censure

• guilty of crime or serious offense

• involving or being or having the nature of a crime

• the trace of a point whose direction of motion changes

• a line on a graph representing data

• a pitch of a baseball that is thrown with spin so that its path curves as it approaches the batter

• the property possessed by the curving of a line or surface

• curved segment (of a road or river or railroad track etc.)

• turn sharply; change direction abruptly

• extend in curves and turns

• form an arch or curve

• bend or cause to bend

• form a curl, curve, or kink