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
Foxiness
Foxiness noun - The inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery.
Usage example: an imposter of such formidable foxiness that a movie was made of his entertaining escapades
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- artifice and crookery
- artifice and foxiness
- cunning and crookery
- cunning and foxiness
- craft and crookery
- craft and foxiness
- fraud and crookery
- fraud and foxiness
- dishonesty and crookery
- dishonesty and foxiness
- shrewdness and crookery
- shrewdness and foxiness
- dissimulation and crookery
- dissimulation and foxiness
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