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Crime vs Crookery - What's the difference?

crime | crookery |

As nouns the difference between crime and crookery

is that crime is (countable) a specific act committed in violation of the law while crookery is the activities of crooks; crime.

As a verb crime

is to commit (s).

crime

English

(wikipedia crime)

Noun

  • (countable) A specific act committed in violation of the law.
  • (uncountable) The practice or habit of committing crimes.
    • Crime doesn’t pay.
  • (uncountable) criminal acts collectively.
  • Any great wickedness or sin; iniquity.
  • * Alexander Pope
    • No crime' was thine, if 'tis no ' crime to love.
  • (obsolete) That which occasions crime.
  • * Spenser
    • the tree of life, the crime of our first father's fall

    Usage notes

    * Adjectives often applied to "crime": organized, brutal, terrible, horrible, heinous, horrendous, hideous, financial, sexual, international.

    Synonyms

    * (criminal acts collectively) delinquency, crime rate, criminality

    Hyponyms

    * * * * * * *

    Derived terms

    * crime against humanity * crime against nature * crimebuster * crime index * crime mapping * crime rate * criminal * criminal law * criminal record * criminology * decriminalization * international crime * organised crime / organized crime * sexual crime * war crime * white collar crime

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • To commit (s).
  • * 1987 , Robert Sampson, Yesterday's Faces: From the Dark Side (ISBN 0879723637), page 61:
    • If, during the 1920s, the master criminal was a gamester, criming for self expression, during the 1930s he performed in other ways for other purposes.

    See also

    * offence * sin * administrative infraction (less serious violation of the law) ----

    crookery

    English

    Noun

  • The activities of crooks; crime.
  • * 1959 , Roald Dahl, Parson's Pleasure
    • It was always intriguing to hear about some new form of crookery or deception.
  • * 2003 , Martin Howell, Predators and profits: 100+ ways for investors to protect their nest eggs
    • But this is small time crookery to the real manipulators and deceivers.
  • * 2008 , Alistair Cooke, Alistair Cooke's America
    • 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