Crookery

I certainly see that there is violence, mayhem, crookery and deceit all around me. ❋ Judie Fein (2011)

One sure way to be completely safe from any type of legal action is for this committee to look into your crookery. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A third-rate bookmaker or loan shark would be embarrassed to be associated with this sort of crookery. ❋ Inspector Gadget (2010)

Is this all some sort of bizarre coincidence, like deregulation and financial crookery or religious fundamentalism and bizarre rules on human behavior? mrtoads ❋ Unknown (2008)

And she still won even with the crookery that went on in Gary which held up the announcement until the middle of the night. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He was a pillar of society, something that's unusual in the world of crookery. ❋ Unknown (2009)

(Everyone went to 'the private sector' and got their payoffs for their crookery those 8-10 years.) ❋ Unknown (2009)

The BBC balances news of crookery by Darling with ho-hum second home troughing by Howard: both amoral but one happens to be illegal. ❋ Unknown (2009)

When Peter Bottomley or Norman Baker complained to Evan Davis at the end of Today that Harman had mentioned crooked MP, Derek Conway, twice without, as it happens, mentioning Conway's party allegiance to contrast Conway's crookery with Labour cabinet members' . ❋ Unknown (2009)

The structural problems that gave rise to Foggo's crookery are still in place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Note that in this very referral, no matter what the ethics board's or officer's ultimate finding, there is at least partial, built-in absolution; for the premise has been established that the ethical implications of the act were so hard to divine that the poor fellow had to send the whole thing out for analysis-therefore it could hardly have been simple, witting crookery in the first place. ❋ Unknown (2008)

I found Martin to be very direct and in your face which I guess one does when being accused of crookery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Republicans are common thieves and mobsters playing at politics as a game of crookery. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Most Texas GOPPERS fed at the trough; most benefited from crookery; most got on board the gravy train. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The chickens were coming home to roost for the Ohio GOP no matter what the national party did, given how deep the crookery and incompetence ran. ❋ Ann Althouse (2006)

The focus here has to be on the crookery in Enron and what allowed that to happen, and what is going to happen to the workers who have been left with nothing, and what should happen to people like Ken Lay, who should be behind bars doing time. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Far-reaching legislation was tabled in parliament to combat fraud, though the report said that what would ultimately help were freer markets, more transparency and greater economic growth "as crookery cannot be separated from the socio-economic environment." ❋ Unknown (1996)

[This is] [pure] [crookery] man! ❋ Richard M. Nixon, The Crook (2022)

He looks [shady] like he is about to [get into] some [crookery]. ❋ Sikkone (2014)