Word Meanings - KNAVERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of KNAVERY)

• Roguery
• Trickery
• cheating
• chicanery
• swindling
• vagabondism
• mischief
• fraud
• knavery

Related words: (words related to KNAVERY)

• MISCHIEF
  + chief end, head, F. chef chief. See Minus, and 1. Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by
• CHEATABLE
  Capable of being cheated.
• TRICKERY
  The art of dressing up; artifice; stratagem; fraud; imposture.
• ROGUERY
  1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness.
• SWINDLER
  One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages.
• KNAVERY
  Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 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.
• MISCHIEFFUL
  Mischievous. Foote.
• MISCHIEFABLE
  Mischievous. Lydgate.
• VAGABONDISM
  Vagabondage.
• SWINDLERY
  Swindling; rougery. "Swindlery and blackguardism." Carlyle.
• CHEATABLENESS
  Capability of being cheated.
• FRAUDFUL
  Full of fraud, deceit, or treachery; trickish; treacherous; fraudulent; -- applied to persons or things. I. Taylor. -- Fraud"ful*ly, adv.
• MISCHIEF-MAKING
  Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels. Rowe. -- n.
• FRAUDULENTLY
  In a fraudulent manner.
• FRAUDULENCE; FRAUDULENCY
  The quality of being fraudulent; deliberate deceit; trickishness. Hooker.
• FRAUDULENT
  1. Using fraud; trickly; deceitful; dishonest. 2. Characterized by,, founded on, or proceeding from, fraund; as, a fraudulent bargain. He, with serpent tongue, . . . His fraudulent temptation thus began. Milton. 3. Obtained or performed
• CHEATER
  1. One who cheats. 2. An escheator. Shak.
• CHEAT
  A troublesome grass, growing as a weed in grain fields; -- called also chess. See Chess. (more info) that fall to a lord or to the state by forfeiture, or by the death of the tenant without heirs; the meaning being explained by the frauds, real
• FRAUDLESS
  Free from fraud. -- Fraud"less*ly, adv. -- Fraud"less*ness, n.
• CHICANERY
  Mean or unfair artifice to perplex a cause and obscure the truth; stratagem; sharp practice; sophistry. Irritated by perpetual chicanery. Hallam. Syn. -- Trickery; sophistry; stratagem.
• ESCHEATOR
  An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill.
• DEFRAUD
  To deprive of some right, interest, or property, by a deceitful device; to withhold from wrongfully; to injure by embezzlement; to cheat; to overreach; as, to defraud a servant, or a creditor, or the state; -- with of before the thing
• TRACHEATE
  Breathing by means of tracheæ; of or pertaining to the Tracheata.
• DEFRAUDATION
  The act of defrauding; a taking by fraud. Sir T. Browne.
• ESCHEATAGE
  The right of succeeding to an escheat. Sherwood.
• ESCHEAT
  escheit, escheoit, escheeite, esheoite, fr. escheoir to fall to, fall to the lot of; pref. es- + cheoir, F. choir, to The falling back or reversion of lands, by some casualty or accident, to the lord of the fee, in consequence of the extinction
• YAZOO FRAUD
  The grant by the State of Georgia, by Act of Jan. 7, 1795, of 35,000,000 acres of her western territory, for 0,000, to four companies known as the Yazoo Companies from the region granted ; -- commonly so called, the act being known as the Yazoo