Cheating
Crookery
Crookery noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.
Usage example: the dealer encouraged his sales reps to engage in crookery of all sorts, so long as it sold cars
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- deception and cheating
- deception and crookery
- artifice and cheating
- artifice and crookery
- cunning and cheating
- cunning and crookery
- double-dealing and cheating
- double-dealing and crookery
- craft and cheating
- craft and crookery
- fraud and cheating
- fraud and crookery
- dishonesty and cheating
- dishonesty and crookery
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