Roguery

  • 101prankishness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural).… …

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  • 102roguishness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun Annoying yet harmless, usually playful acts: devilry, deviltry, diablerie, high jinks, impishness, mischief, mischievousness, prankishness, rascality, roguery, tomfoolery. Informal: shenanigan (often used in plural).… …

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  • 103shenanigan — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun 1. Informal. An indirect, usually cunning means of gaining an end: artifice, deception, device, dodge, feint, gimmick, imposture, jig, maneuver, ploy, ruse, sleight, stratagem, subterfuge, trick, wile. Informal: take… …

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  • 104Improbity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Improbity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 improbity improbity Sgm: N 1 dishonesty dishonesty dishonor Sgm: N 1 deviation from rectitude deviation from rectitude Sgm: N 1 disgrace disgrace &c.(disrepute) 874 Sgm: N 1 fraud …

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  • 105roperies — rop·er·y || rəʊpÉ™rɪ n. place for making ropes; roguery; knavery …

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  • 106ropery — rop·er·y || rəʊpÉ™rɪ n. place for making ropes; roguery; knavery …

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  • 107rogue — noun 1》 a dishonest or unprincipled man.     ↘a mischievous but likeable person. 2》 [usu. as modifier] an elephant or other large wild animal with destructive tendencies driven away or living apart from the herd: a rogue elephant.     ↘a person… …

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  • 108machiavelianism — n.; (also machiavelism) Duplicity, chicane, guile, chicanery, trickery, cunning, circumvention, deceit, deception, artifice, dissimulation, double dealing, hocus pocus, shifting, quibbling, stratagem, roguery, craft, subtlety, insidiousness …

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  • 109scoundrelism — n. Knavery, roguery, villany, rascality, turpitude, baseness …

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  • 110swindling — n. Knavery, cheating, rascality, roguery, imposture …

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