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KNAVERY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knavery mean? 

KNAVERY (noun)
  The noun KNAVERY has 1 sense:

1. lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealingplay

  Familiarity information: KNAVERY used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KNAVERY (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

dishonesty; knavery

Hypernyms ("knavery" is a kind of...):

actus reus; misconduct; wrongdoing; wrongful conduct (activity that transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "knavery"):

betrayal; perfidy; treachery; treason (an act of deliberate betrayal)

charlatanism; quackery (the dishonesty of a charlatan)

trick (an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent)

falsehood; falsification (the act of rendering something false as by fraudulent changes (of documents or measures etc.) or counterfeiting)


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