knavery

knavery
n
1. rascality, roguery, roguishness, unscrupulousness, baseness, knavishness; villainy, miscreancy, deviltry, evildoing, wrongdoing, evil ways, dark and crooked ways; mischief, mischievousness, pettifoggery, chicanery, shenanigans, hanky-panky, messing around, Sl. funny business, Sl. monkey business, Sl. monkeyshines.
2. treachery, treason, betrayal, recreance, recreancy, disloyalty; deception, deceit, trickery, fraudulence, fraud, dissimulation, cozenage, dupery; duplicity, double-dealing, talking out of both sides of one's mouth, dishonesty; trickery, guile, wiles, foxiness, craftiness, craft, cunning, artfulness, finesse, hocus-pocus, Inf. razzle-dazzle; cheating, swindling, Inf. dirty pool.
3. trick, stratagem, artifice, pretense, Trojan horse, Obs. cog; wile, subterfuge, misrepresentation, imposture, imposition, Law. cavin; fake, sham, hoax, fraud, humbug, feint, blind; swindle, shuck, Inf. flimflam, Inf. flam, confidence game or trick, Sl. con game.

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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 — 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

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