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noun
artfulness, artifice, beguilement, cheat, cheating, chicanery, circumvention, corruption, cozenage, craft, craftiness, criminality, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, deviousness, dishonesty, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraus, guile, hoax, humbuggery, insincerity, knavishness, lack of principle, lack of probity, legerdemain, malfeasance, malitia, nequitia, pettifoggery, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, scoundrelism, shadiness, sharp practice, skulduggery, slyness, treachery, trick, trickery, trickiness, turpitude, underhand dealing, unreliability, untrustworthiness, villainousness, villainy, wiles, wrongdoing
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artifice, collusion, corruption, deception, dishonesty, evasion, hoax, imposture, improbity, mischief, misdoing, pettifoggery
Burton's Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006
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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 — (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 — 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,… … Moby Thesaurus
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
