About The Word Knavery
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Knavery
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What's The Definition Of Knavery?
[n] lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
Synonyms | Synonyms for Knavery: dishonesty Related Terms | Find terms related to Knavery: 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 See Also | actus reus | betrayal | charlatanism | falsehood | falsification | misconduct | perfidy | quackery | treachery | treason | trick | wrongdoing | wrongful conduct Knavery In Webster's Dictionary \Knav"er*y\, n.; pl. {Knaveries}.
1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery;
a knavish action.
This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's
name. --Shak.
2. pl. Roguish or mischievous tricks. --Shak.
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