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Rookery vs Crookery - What's the difference?

rookery | crookery |

As nouns the difference between rookery and crookery

is that rookery is a colony of breeding birds or other animals while crookery is the activities of crooks; crime.

rookery

English

(wikipedia rookery)

Noun

(rookeries)
  • A colony of breeding birds or other animals.
  • A crowded tenement.
  • (British) a place where criminals congregate, often an area of a town or city.
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    • 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