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
Crookedness and crookery are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Crookedness" instead a noun "Crookery".
Crookedness
Crookedness noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.
Usage example: for sheer crookedness it would be hard to beat the used-car dealer who sold me that lemon
Crookery and crookedness are semantically related. You can use "Crookery" instead a noun "Crookedness".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- artifice and crookery
- artifice and crookedness
- cunning and crookery
- cunning and crookedness
- cheating and crookery
- cheating and crookedness
- double-dealing and crookery
- double-dealing and crookedness
- craft and crookery
- craft and crookedness
- fraud and crookery
- fraud and crookedness
- dishonesty and crookery
- dishonesty and crookedness
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