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
Cunning
Cunning noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.
Usage example: used cunning and subterfuge to work her way up the corporate ladder
Crookery and cunning are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crookery" instead a noun "Cunning".
Nearby Word: cunningly
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- deception and crookery
- deception and cunning
- artifice and crookery
- artifice and cunning
- cheating and crookery
- cheating and cunning
- double-dealing and crookery
- double-dealing and cunning
- craft and crookery
- craft and cunning
- fraud and crookery
- fraud and cunning
- dishonesty and crookery
- dishonesty and cunning
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Cunning and Crookery. (2017). Retrieved 2026, August 01, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crookery/cunning
Crookery & Cunning. N.p., 2017. Web. 01 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crookery/cunning>.
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