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
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Recent Examples of crookery
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.
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Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
Sally Jenkins, chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for crookery
Noun
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Everything can be used as a tool for good and to build, or for bad and destruction and deception.—
Marc Malkin,
Variety,
14 Oct. 2025
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The question now is whether our ability to detect deception can evolve as fast as the tools that create it.—
Big Think,
Big Think,
13 Oct. 2025
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And with that comes deceit and manipulation.—
Lori A Bashian,
FOXNews.com,
12 Oct. 2025
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The 2022 push for Measure B, which enabled this year’s approval of new city trash policies, was built on deceit about how much the fees would be.—
U T Editorial Board,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
11 Oct. 2025
Noun
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If convicted of bank fraud or making false statements, the penalties could include up to 30 years in prison and $1 million in fines for each count, the DOJ says.—
Deputy News Editor,
MSNBC Newsweek,
11 Oct. 2025
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Anna Moneymaker | Getty Images A federal grand jury in Virginia last night indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James on charges of bank fraud and making false statements to a financial institution.—
Alex Harring,
CNBC,
10 Oct. 2025
Noun
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Of course, the retort is that this would be irritating and exasperating to be continually deluged with alerts about AI deceptiveness.—
Lance Eliot,
Forbes.com,
24 Aug. 2025
Noun
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And though all accusations of the Blue Jays' cheating are hearsay, the frequent references to the Astros indicate the lasting impact that scandal has had on the sport.—
Marni Rose McFall,
MSNBC Newsweek,
6 Oct. 2025
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People make close, intense bonds when stuck in the Big Brother house together, and Vince and Morgan’s dynamic crosses more lines with each passing day, emotional cheating threatening to tip into physical even as Vince continues to hopelessly cloak his feelings in flimsy analogies and code phrases.—
Ben Rosenstock,
Vulture,
27 Sep. 2025
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Federico Marchetti, the Italian fashion entrepreneur, is a master of sprezzatura—the courtier’s art of cloaking ambition and cunning in an air of guileless nonchalance.—
John Seabrook,
New Yorker,
29 Sep. 2025
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But Israeli cunning, buoyed by remarkable intelligence capabilities and precision targeting, has damaged the group.—
Sean Durns,
The Washington Examiner,
26 Sep. 2025
Cite this Entry
“Crookery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/crookery. Accessed 17 Oct. 2025.
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