knavishness

  • 21villainy — Synonyms and related words: abomination, atrocity, bad, baseness, chicanery, degradation, disgrace, error, evil, infamy, iniquity, knavery, knavishness, moral turpitude, obliquity, peccancy, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguery, roguishness,… …

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  • 22roguery — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. knavishness, rascality, mischief. See improbity, badness. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. trickery, villainy, fraud, rascality; see deception 1 , dishonesty , mischief . III (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun… …

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  • 23dishonesty — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. deceit, deception, falsehood, trickery, infidelity, faithlessness, falsity, craft, artifice, duplicity, wiliness, untrustworthiness, insidiousness, cunning, guile, perfidiousness, slyness, perfidy, double dealing,… …

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  • 24meanness — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The quality of being mean] Syn. smallmindedness, baseness, lowness, pettiness, wickedness, debasement, degradation, abjection, shamelessness, infamy, degeneracy, blackguardism, knavishness, unscrupulousness, stinginess,… …

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  • 25knavish — (adj.) late 14c., from KNAVE (Cf. knave) + ISH (Cf. ish). Related: Knavishly; knavishness …

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  • 26knave — noun 1》 archaic a dishonest or unscrupulous man. 2》 (in cards) a jack. Derivatives knavery noun (plural knaveries). knavish adjective knavishly adverb knavishness noun O …

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  • 27knavery — n. Villany, rascality, fraud, knavishness, dishonesty, criminality, trickery, scoundrelism …

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  • 28rascality — n. Knavery, knavishness, wickedness, villany, dishonesty, trickery, chicane, chicanery, fraud …

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  • 29villany — 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 …

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  • 30knavery — n 1. rascality, roguery, roguishness, unscrupulousness, baseness, knavishness; villainy, miscreancy, deviltry, evildoing, wrongdoing, evil ways, dark and crooked ways; mischief, mischievousness, pettifoggery, chicanery, shenanigans, hanky panky,… …

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