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crook
noun
Synonyms and Antonyms of CROOK
1
a person who has committed a crime <a guy at the bar was raving about how all politicians are basically crooks>
Related Words misdemeanant; accomplice, principal; desperado, outlaw; convict, jailbird; perp, perpetrator; evildoer, gallows bird, misdoer, misfeasor, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, villain, wrongdoer; blackhander, button man, gangster, hoodlum, hooligan, mobster, racketeer, thug; enforcer, gun, gunman, gunsel [slang], hit man, triggerman; backslider, recidivist, relapser, repeater; accused, arrestee, defendant, detainee, fish, suspect
Near Antonyms gangbuster, lawman
2
something that curves or is curved <carried the baby in the crook of her arm>
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