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
Mendacity
Mendacity noun - A statement known by its maker to be untrue and made in order to deceive.
Crookery and mendacity are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crookery" instead a noun "Mendacity".
Nearby Word: mendacious
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- falsehood and crookery
- falsehood and mendacity
- deception and crookery
- deception and mendacity
- double-dealing and crookery
- double-dealing and mendacity
- lying and crookery
- lying and mendacity
- fraud and crookery
- fraud and mendacity
- dishonesty and crookery
- dishonesty and mendacity
- dissimulation and crookery
- dissimulation and mendacity
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