crooked dealings

My pretty, there are penalties in the business world for crooked dealing.

His reason: "Despotism alone can provide that atmosphere of secrecy which favors crooked dealings."

"In my business - the real-estate business - so many people try crooked dealings a man gets to be suspicious.

He then skips town after his crooked dealings are revealed and J.R. turns on him.

Gene escapes and alerts the townspeople to Wilkins' crooked dealings.

The supposedly-moral Margaret Thatcher didn't seem to display much moral judgement when it came to her son and his crooked dealings, did she?

Wilson was not a soldier but "a politician," a word which, Haig explained, was "synonymous with crooked dealing and wrong values."

In short, mysterious money for crooked dealings has again been found in the hands of people close to Mr. da Silva.

Last evening, Stan's revelations in the lab made it clear that Laury had entangled her in his crooked dealings.

She pretended to be indignant and said that she knew nothing about it at all, but that she believed Castor capable of any crooked dealing.

Coster-Musica had carried out swindles on a widespread scale, including drug smuggling, weapons sales, and crooked dealings, and was a member of many prominent clubs.

Cookman blames Stephan Goldner, an admiralty supplier whom he accuses of crooked dealing, for the presumed outbreak.

In his $6.4bn lawsuit, Picard claimed the bank was "complicit" in Madoff's crooked dealing and "wilfully blind to the fraud."

There, his would-be Nigerian business partners let him know that he cannot leave unless he pays a large cash ransom or joins them in crooked dealings like money-laundering.

Later, Carroll Jo is pulled over on a lonely highway and discovers that the local sheriff is in on the crooked dealing as well, when he is handcuffed to his truck.

The attempted purchase of a report originally meant to incriminate a rival in the 2002 election by operatives of the governing Workers' Party again placed crooked dealings close to Mr. da Silva.

It starred CBBC presenter Anne Foy as the happy and sweet, yet troubled, Penny Dreadful, who was constantly trying to thwart the surreal and crooked dealings of her wayward family.

When threatened with divorce, however, Kitty tells her husband that, if he wants his Cabinet appointment instead of a career-stopping revelation from her about his crooked dealings, he must back down from his takeover of Oliver's line and treat her with more respect.

A fire in a derrick tailing pool started by Jim Redbird, a Cherokee who had been made a rich owner of oil land through crooked dealings of oilmen, and who later renounces his holdings, results in an extravagant fire scene for which the movie got its Oscar nomination.