See crook in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II
noun
Something bent:
bend, bow2, curvature, curve, round, turn. See straight- (Informal)
A person who cheats:
bilk, cheat, cheater, cozener, defrauder, rook, sharper, swindler, trickster, victimizer. (Informal) chiseler, flimflammer. (Slang) diddler, gyp, gypper. See honest
verb
To swerve from a straight line:
angle2, arc, arch, bend, bow2, curve, round, turn. See straight
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