Example Sentences

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Is the distinction between crooked and uncrooked psychics meant to turn on the eye-poppingness of the sums involved?

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2015

I’m sure I’m not the only person who read the crooked-psychic series in the Times recently and asked himself, What would an uncrooked psychic be?

From The New Yorker • Jun. 18, 2015

Suspicion is the latest and most difficult lesson of the honest and uncrooked mind.

From Imogen A Pastoral Romance by Godwin, William

He shook hands as with one of his own sex, spine uncrooked; he greeted them with level voice, not as one who addresses a thing afraid of sound.

From Our Friend the Charlatan by Gissing, George