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knavery
noun as in deceitfulness
Strong matches
noun as in evil
Strong matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- heinousness
- hurt
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- perversity
- ruin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrongdoing
Weak match
noun as in hanky-panky
noun as in peccancy
Weak matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- calamity
- catastrophe
- corruption
- crime
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- harm
- hatred
- heinousness
- hurt
- ill
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- looseness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misery
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- pain
- perversity
- ruin
- sin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- suffering
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in swindle
Example Sentences
I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.
They are,” said he, “of much sincerity and integrity far from the craft and knavery of men among us.
I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last.
That a due rigour and restraint be laid upon the second, that villainy and knavery might not be encouraged by a law.
The young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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