"crookery" meaning in English

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "crook",
        "3": "ery"
      },
      "expansion": "crook + -ery",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From crook + -ery.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crookeries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "crookery (countable and uncountable, plural crookeries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ery",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Crime",
          "orig": "en:Crime",
          "parents": [
            "Criminal law",
            "Society",
            "Law",
            "All topics",
            "Justice",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure:",
          "text": "It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Martin Howell, Predators and profits: 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs:",
          "text": "But this is small time crookery to the real manipulators and deceivers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America:",
          "text": "What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The activities of crooks; crime."
      ],
      "id": "en-crookery-en-noun-9FY823Zf",
      "links": [
        [
          "crook",
          "crook"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "crookery"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "crook",
        "3": "ery"
      },
      "expansion": "crook + -ery",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From crook + -ery.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "crookeries",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "~"
      },
      "expansion": "crookery (countable and uncountable, plural crookeries)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ery",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "en:Crime"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1959, Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure:",
          "text": "It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2003, Martin Howell, Predators and profits: 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs:",
          "text": "But this is small time crookery to the real manipulators and deceivers.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2008, Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America:",
          "text": "What the people never knew at the time was the scale and audacity of the crookeries of Harding's advisers. In 1923 the Senate investigated 'irregularities' in the Veterans' Bureau. It had been defrauded of tidy sums by its chief […]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The activities of crooks; crime."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "crook",
          "crook"
        ],
        [
          "crime",
          "crime"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "crookery"
}