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单词 crookery
释义

crookery

noun

crook·​ery ˈkru̇-kə-rē How to pronounce crookery (audio)
: crooked dealings or practices

Synonyms

  • artifice
  • cheating
  • cozenage
  • craft
  • craftiness
  • crookedness
  • cunning
  • cunningness
  • deceit
  • deceitfulness
  • deception
  • deceptiveness
  • dishonesty
  • dissembling
  • dissimulation
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • duplicity
  • fakery
  • foxiness
  • fraud
  • guile
  • guilefulness
  • wiliness
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Example Sentences

the dealer encouraged his sales reps to engage in crookery of all sorts, so long as it sold cars
Recent Examples on the Web But most of all, the NCAA needs Ogunbowale to remind the public that the collegiate model is worth defending, and that the enterprise is more than just crookery. Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018

Word History

First Known Use

1927, in the meaning defined above

crookery

noun

as in deception
the inclination or practice of misleading others through lies or trickery the dealer encouraged his sales reps to engage in crookery of all sorts, so long as it sold cars

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • deception
  • fraud
  • deceit
  • deceptiveness
  • cheating
  • deceitfulness
  • cunning
  • duplicity
  • lying
  • dishonesty
  • fakery
  • crookedness
  • dissembling
  • cunningness
  • chicanery
  • secrecy
  • guile
  • double-dealing
  • dupery
  • craftiness
  • dissimulation
  • subterfuge
  • fraudulence
  • cozenage
  • skulduggery
  • wiliness
  • craft
  • swindling
  • trickery
  • artifice
  • hypocrisy
  • prevarication
  • foxiness
  • mendacity
  • skullduggery
  • jugglery
  • guilefulness
  • insincerity
  • underhandedness
  • unscrupulousness
  • artfulness
  • fib
  • mountebankery
  • deviousness
  • sanctimoniousness
  • shadiness
  • treacherousness
  • shrewdness
  • chicane
  • legerdemain
  • two-facedness
  • falsehood
  • equivocation
  • furtiveness
  • untruth
  • obliquity
  • caginess
  • hanky-panky
  • wile
  • falsity
  • sneakiness
  • covertness
  • shiftiness
  • slipperiness
  • slyness
  • cageyness
  • smoothness
  • stealthiness
  • oiliness
  • slickness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • artlessness
  • sincerity
  • guilelessness
  • ingenuousness
  • forthrightness
  • frankness
  • candor
  • probity
  • honesty
  • openness
  • directness
  • plainness
  • candidness
  • good faith
  • reliability
  • trustworthiness
  • solidity
  • goodness
  • integrity
  • righteousness
  • dependability
  • decency
  • virtuousness
  • truthfulness
  • incorruptibility
  • uprightness
  • plainspokenness
  • trustiness
  • trustability
  • reliableness
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