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
Trickery
Trickery noun - The use of clever underhanded actions to achieve an end.
Usage example: Delia resorted to trickery—even loading up the fishing equipment—to induce her dog into the car for his vet appointment
Crookery and trickery are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Crookery" instead a noun "Trickery".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- deception and crookery
- deception and trickery
- artifice and crookery
- artifice and trickery
- cunning and crookery
- cunning and trickery
- cheating and crookery
- cheating and trickery
- double-dealing and crookery
- double-dealing and trickery
- craft and crookery
- craft and trickery
- fraud and crookery
- fraud and trickery
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Trickery and Crookery. (2017). Retrieved 2026, August 02, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/crookery/trickery
Crookery & Trickery. N.p., 2017. Web. 02 Aug. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/crookery/trickery>.
Trickery or Crookery. 2017. Accessed August 02, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/crookery/trickery.
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