| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. Something bent: bend, bow2, curvature, curve, round, turn. See STRAIGHT. 2. 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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