KNAVERY: Dictionary Entry and Meaning
| Pronunciation: | | 'neyvuree
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| | Definition: | | [n] lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing |
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| | Synonyms: | | dishonesty |
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| | See Also: | | actus reus, betrayal, charlatanism, falsehood, falsification, misconduct, perfidy, quackery, treachery, treason, trick, wrongdoing, wrongful conduct | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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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