knavery

knavery
Synonyms and related words:
abomination, art, artful dodge, artifice, atrocity, bad, baseness, blind, chicanery, conspiracy, contrivance, coup, craft, cute trick, deceit, degradation, design, device, disgrace, dodge, error, evil, expedient, fakement, feint, fetch, gambit, game, gimmick, grift, infamy, iniquity, intrigue, jugglery, knavishness, little game, maneuver, moral turpitude, move, obliquity, peccancy, plot, ploy, racket, rascality, rascalry, red herring, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness, ruse, scampishness, scandal, scheme, scoundrelism, shame, shift, sin, sleight, stratagem, strategy, subterfuge, tactic, trick, trickery, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, villainy, wile, wily device, wrong

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  • Knavery — Knav er*y, n.; pl. {Knaveries}. 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. [1913 Webster] This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man s name. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. Roguish or mischievous tricks.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • knavery — I noun artfulness, artifice, beguilement, cheat, cheating, chicanery, circumvention, corruption, cozenage, craft, craftiness, criminality, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, deviousness, dishonesty, double… …   Law dictionary

  • knavery — (n.) 1520s, from KNAVE (Cf. knave) + ERY (Cf. ery) …   Etymology dictionary

  • knavery — [nāv′ər ē] n. pl. knaveries 1. behavior or an act characteristic of a knave; rascality; dishonesty 2. Obs. roguishness; mischievous quality …   English World dictionary

  • knavery — knave ► NOUN 1) archaic a dishonest or unscrupulous man. 2) (in cards) a jack. DERIVATIVES knavery noun knavish adjective. ORIGIN Old English, «boy, servant» …   English terms dictionary

  • knavery — noun (plural eries) Date: 1528 1. a. rascality b. a roguish or mischievous act 2. obsolete roguish mischief …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • knavery — /nay veuh ree/, n., pl. knaveries. 1. action or practice characteristic of a knave. 2. unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery. 3. a knavish act or practice. [1520 30; KNAVE + ERY] * * * …   Universalium

  • knavery — noun /ˈneɪvəri/ a) The (mis)behaviour of a knave, boyish mischief. Cassios a proper man: let me see now: b) Deceit, an unprincipled action. To get his place and to plume up my will …   Wiktionary

  • knavery — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. thievery, rascality, fraud; see deception 1 , dishonesty , evil 1 …   English dictionary for students

  • knavery — knav|e|ry [ˈneıvəri] n [U] old use dishonest behaviour …   Dictionary of contemporary English

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