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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Knavery \Knav"er*y\, n.; pl. {Knaveries}.
     1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery;
        a knavish action.
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              This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's


              name.                                 --Shak.
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     2. pl. Roguish or mischievous tricks. --Shak.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  knavery
       n : lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing [syn:
            {dishonesty}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "knavery":
     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
  
  

















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