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crookery
noun crook·ery \ˈkru̇-kə-rē\
Definition of CROOKERY
: crooked dealings or practices
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First Known Use of CROOKERY
1927
Related to CROOKERY
- Synonyms
- artifice, cheating, cozenage, craft, craftiness, crookedness, deceit, cunning, cunningness, deceitfulness, deception, deceptiveness, dishonesty, dissembling, dissimulation, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, fakery, foxiness, fraud, guile, guilefulness, wiliness
- Antonyms
- artlessness, forthrightness, good faith, guilelessness, ingenuousness, sincerity
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