be crook at/about; go crook at

Alectromancy, by Cooks [sic] or Pullen... -- The Magastromancer xix, Gaule, 1652

But the finest example of the blending of the Saracenic and the Romanesque, with the rich ornamentation in mosaic carried out so effectively by the Siculo-Normans, is S. Maria dell'Ammiraglio, […] .

Two other young men, both tutors to her sons, also figured sentimentally in her diaries, though not à outrance.