'Knavery' definitions:
Definition of 'knavery'
(from WordNet)
noun
Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn: dishonesty, knavery]
Definition of 'Knavery'
From: GCIDE
- 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. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'knavery'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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