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crookeries

crookeries is the plural of crookery.

Meaning of crookery

Noun

crookery (countable and uncountable, plural crookeries)

  1. The activities of crooks; crime.
    • It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure

Questions about crookeries

What is crookeries the plural of?
Crookeries is the plural of crookery.

Words near crookeries in the dictionary

  1. crooken
  2. crookened
  3. crookening
  4. crookens
  5. crooker
  6. crookeries
  7. Crookers
  8. crookery
  9. Crookes
  10. Crookes dark space
  11. Crookes layer

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crookeries (page history and authors); crookery (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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