crook's Usage Examples:

Originally plain, the crook was from the lath century onwards often made in the form of a snake (5), which in richer staves encircled the Lamb of God or the representation of a figure.

She fed, ensnared by his scent, until she was soothed then tucked her head in the crook between his neck and shoulder.

He was an affable boy with a crooked smile and dusting of freckles across his nose.

often walked by very crooked paths; but the reproach that he allowed his policy to be swayed exclusively by his family interests is unjustified.

I haven't visited a dentist in four years (fruit gums extract dodgy molars better than most Harley Street crooks ).

CAPRICORNUS (" THE Goat"), in astronomy, the tenth sign of the zodiac, represented by the symbol T-2° intended to denote the crooked horns of this animal.

His figure was crooked, his limbs shrunken; his hair hung in dishevelled locks over his haggard countenance.

Although planned in the shape of a cross, with a square and tower in the middle, the arms of the cross are not straight, the constructor holding the ingenious opinion that, in order to prevent little towns from being taken in at a glance, their streets should be crooked.

She tucked her head into the crook of his neck, breathing him in.

It is some five feet long, ending at the top in a crook (volute) bent inwards, and made of metal, ivory or wood.

He picked her up, and crooked an eyebrow.

Like the small time crooks he was to feature in his films, he supported himself by petty theft.

Synonyms:

thug, stealer, gaolbird, moonshiner, lawbreaker, raper, rapist, drug trafficker, machinator, abductor, contrabandist, mobster, murderer, treasonist, firebug, fugitive from justice, parolee, probationer, plotter, drug peddler, hood, hoodlum, extortionist, coconspirator, racketeer, smuggler, criminal, blackmailer, gangster, highjacker, snatcher, desperate criminal, pusher, strong-armer, suborner, accessory, bootlegger, outlaw, tough, moll, jail bird, violator, law offender, repeater, felon, scofflaw, fugitive, moon curser, habitual criminal, recidivist, incendiary, punk, malefactor, peddler, jailbird, mafioso, conspirator, arsonist, toughie, desperado, goon, gun moll, principal, highbinder, gangster"s moll, moon-curser, traitor, runner, kidnaper, accessary, liquidator, drug dealer, hijacker, kidnapper, thief, manslayer, extortioner, briber,

Antonyms:

tender, long, noncombustible, unprovocative, superior,