CROOKERY Synonyms

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• lack of integrity or honesty (especially susceptibility to bribery); use of a position of trust for dishonest gain

• in a state of progressive putrefaction

• decay of matter (as by rot or oxidation)

• moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles

• destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity

• inducement (as of a public official) by improper means (as bribery) to violate duty (as by committing a felony)

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• crafty artfulness (especially in deception)

• attractive especially by means of smallness or prettiness or quaintness

• marked by skill in deception

• showing inventiveness and skill

• the quality of being fraudulent

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• the quality of being deceitful

• a misleading falsehood

• the act of deceiving

• an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers

• the quality of being dishonest

• lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

• a fraudulent or duplicitous representation

• acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

• intentional deception resulting in injury to another person

• a person who makes deceitful pretenses

• something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• the quality of being crafty

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• the tendency to be untruthful

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way

• the use of tricks to deceive someone (usually to extract money from them)

• the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme

• deprive of by deceit