Roguery
111villany — n. [Written also Villainy.] 1. Wickedness, sinfulness, depravity, turpitude, atrocity, criminality, infamy. 2. Depraved discourse, infamous speech. 3. Roguery, rascality, knavery, knavishness, dishonesty, trickery, crime, sin, iniquity …
112waggery — n. Jocularity, facetiousness, drollery, pleasantry, humor, fun, waggishness, mischievous merriment, sport, roguery, jocosity, jocoseness …
113rogue — 1 noun (C) 1 often humorous a man or boy who behaves badly or causes trouble, but who you like in spite of this: What s the little rogue done now, I wonder? | a lovable rogue 2 old fashioned a man who is dishonest and has a bad character: rogues… …
114excuse — vb Excuse, condone, pardon, forgive, remit are comparable when meaning not to exact punishment or redress for (an offense) or from (an offender). In polite use excuse, pardon, and forgive usually suggest a hope that one is not annoyed. Both… …
115baseness — n 1. vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, foulness, sinisterness, darkness, black heartedness; balefulness, dread fulness, direness, direfulness, grimness; malice, maleficence, invidiousness; wickedness,… …
116deviltry — n 1. mischievousness, mischief, foul play, devilry, Inf. goings on; villainy, knavery, rascality, roguery. 2. wickedness, diabolicalness, fiendishness, satanicalness, hellishness, infernality; evil, iniquity, improbity, vice; maliciousness,… …
117dishonesty — n 1. falsity, mendacity, untruthfulness, lying, prevaricating; duplicity, double dealing, hypocrisy; disingenuousness, insincerity, improbity; deceit, cheating, crookedness, deviousness, knavery, roguery, rascality, villainy; dirty pool, dirty… …
118double-dealing — n duplicity, equivocation, dissimilation, cant, lip service, mouth honor; treachery, foul play, betrayal, Judas kiss, disloyalty, bad faith, infidelity, faithlessness, perfidy, breach of trust, Inf. two timing; dishonesty, hypocrisy, mendacity,… …
119duplicity — n guile, chicanery, double dealing, ambidexterity; artificed, trickery, Machiavellianism, Mach iavellism, deceit, improbity; equivocation, dissimilation, cant, lip service, mouth honor; treachery, foul play, betrayal, Judas kiss, disloyalty, bad… …
120foul play — n 1. treachery, perfidiousness, perfidy, duplicity, guile, double dealing; sharp practice, Inf. dirty trick, underhanded dealing; villainy, roguery, knavery; fraud, deception, chicanery, skulduggery; assault, attack, outrage; murder, manslaughter …
