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Definition: Knavery |
KnaveryNoun1. Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "knavery" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references) |
Synonym: KnaverySynonym: dishonesty (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cunning | Chicane, chicanery; sharp practice, knavery, jugglery; concealment; guile, doubling, duplicity; (falsehood); foul play. |
Deception | Fraudulency; covin; knavery; (cunning); |
Improbity | Perfidy; perfidiousness; Adjective: treachery, double dealing; unfairness; Adjective: knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor; (flattery). |
Vice | Immorality, impropriety, indecorum, scandal, laxity, looseness of morals; enphagy, dophagy, exophagy; want of principle, want of ballast; obliquity, backsliding, infamy, demoralization, pravity, depravity, pollution; hardness of heart; brutality; (malevolence); corruption; (debasement); knavery; (improbity); profligacy; flagrancy, atrocity; cannibalism; lesbianism, Sadism. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Knavery |
| English words defined with "knavery": Knaveries, KNavishness ♦ Outknave. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "knavery": CABBAGE. (references) |
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| Author | Quotation |
Aphra Behn | A brave world, Sir, full of religion, knavery and change! |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | This man was the costumer of the immense drama which knavery plays in Paris. |
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| "Knavery" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 66.67% of the time. "Knavery" is used about 3 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 66.67% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 3 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "knavery"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | pandershmëri (dishonesty, fraudulence, fraudulency, improbity, indirection). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خداع (artifice, beguilement, bluff, bluffing, cheat, cheating, chicanery, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, delusion, double dealing, dupery, duplicity, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, humbuggery, imposture, mystification, roguery, spoof, swindle, swindling, trickery, victimization, wile), إحتيال (cheat, cheating, embezzlement, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hankey-pankey, hanky panky, humbug, hustle, jugglery, racket, rascality, roguery, swindle, victimization). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | мошеничество (blackguardism, cheat, dishonesty, fraudulence, harlotry, have, racketeering, rascaldom, rascality, roguery, skin, skuldggery, swiz, thimblerig, trickery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | darebáctví (roguery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | konnantyö (villainous deed). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | friponnerie, filouterie. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schurkenstreich, Gaunerei (cheating, racket, roguery, shakedown, swindling, trickery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κατεργαριά (crookededness, deception, roguery, roguishness, shenanighan, skuldyggery, skullduggery, slyness, trappiness, trick, trickery, trickiness, trickishness), απατεώνια, ατιμία (crookededness, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamousness, infamy, ingloriousness, roguishness, scoundrelism, skuldyggery). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | רמאות (bluff, cheat, cheating, deceit, deception, double cross, double dealing, dupery, fraud, jiggery pokery, sell, skullduggery, swindle, trickery), וכלות (charlatanry, fraud, quackery, roguery, swindling). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | gazság (enormity, foul play, hooliganism, roguery, scoundrelism, villainy), kópéság (caper, impishness, monkeyshine, prank). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | bricconeria. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | cleaysaght (defraudment), cleaderys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | averyknay velhacaria (jobbery, roguery, rowdyism), servente (attendant, boy, janitor, servant), desonestidade (dishonesty, immorality, impromptu, indirection, obliquity, shuffle, untruth). (various references) ticãloşie (abjection, baseness, blackness, dirt, filth, foulness, ignominiousness, ignominy, infamy, knavishness, meanness, misdeed, rascality, swinishness, wickedness, wretchedness), pungãşie (confiscation, do, falseness, fraud, rascality, snap, swindle, theft, thievery), necinste (bad faith, disgrace, dishonesty, dishonor, dishonour, foulness, improbity, insult, knavishness, shame), escrocherie (cheat, do, fraud, humbug, monkey business, quackery, racket, skin game, snap, swindle). (various references) мошенничество (chouse, dishonesty, do, fraud, fraudulence, fraudulency, gyp, hanky-panky, numbers game, rascality, roguery, scam, scams, sharp practice, skin-game). (various references) prepredenost (craftiness), podlost (malice, vileness). (various references) bribonada. (various references) skurkstreck (knavish, skulduggery, skullduggery, villainy), bedrägeri (bunco, buncos, cheat, cozenage, deceit, deception, do, double cross, dupery, false pretences, falsehood, fraud, gammon, gyp, humbug, illusion, imposture, jugglery, racket, sell, swindle, take in, take-in). (various references) ความไม่ซื่อสัตย์ (คำเก่า). (various references) dolandırıcılık (charlatanry, cheat, confidence game, confidence trick, deceit, deceitfulness, do, double dealing, frame up, fraud, grift, jugglery, plant, racket, ramp, roguery, skin game, swindle, take in), üçkâğıtçılık (confidence game, confidence trick, highway robbery, indirection, shell game, skulduggery, swindling, trick, trickery, wiliness). (various references) trò nghịch ác, tính xỏ lá ba que h nh động bất lương, tính đểu giả, sự bất lương (improbity), h nh vi đểu giả trò tinh quái. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | fraudulentiam. (various references) |
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Misspellings | |
"Knavery" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ansavery, cavery, Keaveny, Nasery, natery, navar, navarin, Naveiro, navey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "knavery" (pronounced 'Knav"er*y'): Acceleratory, Antislavery, Apery, Archery, Ashery, Asseveratory, Averpenny, Babery, Baboonery, Bakery, Barkery, Belligerently, Bewitchery, bindery, Bleachery, Bloomery, Boilery, botcherly, botchery, Branchery, Bravery, Brewery, Bribery, Broidery, Buffoonery, Butcherly, Butchery, Cajolery, Chafery, Chicanery, Cholericly, Cinerary, Cleverly, Clouterly, Clownery, Coalery, Cocoonery, Collaterally, Commandery, Congeneracy, Considerably, Consideringly, Cookery, Covertly, Creamery, Crockery, Cutchery, Deanery, Debauchery, Degeneracy. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-k-n-r-v-y" | |
-2 letters: knave, narky, nervy, raven, yearn. | |
-3 letters: aery, aver, earn, envy, eyra, kane, karn, kern, knar, kyar, nark, nary, nave, navy, near, rake, rank, rave, ryke, vane, vary, vena, vera, very, yank, yare, yarn, yean, year, yerk. | |
-4 letters: ane, any, are, ark, ave, aye, ear, era, ern, kae, kay, kea, ken, key, nae, nay. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4B 6E 61 76 65 72 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.- -. .- ...- . .-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001011 01101110 01100001 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)K n a v e r y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004B 006E 0061 0076 0065 0072 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)45806788718491 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Albanian | fjalor, qartësi, përcaktim, saktësi, transmetim, transferim | shqip, الألبانية, الألباني, албанец, албански език, албански, albánský, albanialainen, Albanais, albaner, αλβανικόσ, Αλβανός, αλβανόσ, albán, albanese, Albaneagh, albanês, arnãut, albanez, arnãuţesc, албанский, albanski, albanac, albanés, alban, Arnavut |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | arabishte, العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabský, arabština, arabialainen, arabe, arabisch, αραβικόσ, ערבית, ערבי, arab, arabo, Arabish, arabic, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, าษาหรืออักขระอาหรับ, เกี่ยวกับอาระเบีย, arapça, arap, araplara özgü, tiếng A-rập, thuộc A-rập |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | bulgr, البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, bulharský, bulgarialainen, bulgare, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, bulgaro, Bulgeyragh, Bulgeyrish, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, bulgaristan ile ilgili, người Bun-ga-ri tiếng Bun-ga-ri |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | çek, تشيكي, اللغة التشيكوسلوفاكية, التشيكي أحد أبناء تشيكوسلوفاكيا, чешки, èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, Τσέχος, cseh, ceco, Sheckagh, Sheckish, ceh, чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, tjeck, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, người Séc tiếng Séc |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | finlandez, finlandishte, finlandisht, اللغة الفنلندية, فنلندية, فنلندي, фински език, фински, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, φινλανδικόσ, פי י, finn, finlandese, Fynlannish, Fynlannagh, finlandês, finês, finlandezã, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, finsk, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, tiếng Phần-lan |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | frëngjishte, frëng, franceze, اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, צרפתית, צרפתי, francia, francese, Ny Frangee, Mooinjey ny Frank, francês, francezii, franţuzesc, francezã, francez, franţuzeşte, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili |
German | wörterbuch, Übersetzung | gjerman, ضرب من الرقص, جرماني, الماني, اللغة الألمانية, المانية, германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, nìmec, nìmecký, saksalainen, allemand, deutsch, Deutsche, "ερμανός, 'רמ ית, 'רמ י, német, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemão, neamţ, немецкий, germanski, alemán, tysk, าษาเยอรมัน, เยอรมัน, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, řek, řecký, řeètina, kreikkalainen, grec, grieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, יו ית, יו י, görög, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, grego, greacã, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm |
Hebrew | אוצר מילים, "'"ר", "'בל", תור'מ ות, תר'ום, "עתק", "עתק | hebraishte, اليهودية, اللغة العبرية, يهودي, عبري, العبرية, иврит, староеврейски език, древен жител на юдея, юдейски, израилтянин, евреин, староеврейски, юдей, hebrejský, hebrejec, hebrejka, hebrejština, juutalainen, hébreu, hebräisch, Hebräer, εβραϊκόσ, εβραϊκά, εβραίοσ, עברי, עברית, zsidó, héber, izraelita, ebreo, ebraico, Ewagh, Ewnish, Ew, hebreu, hebraico, limba ebraicã, izraelit, evreu, evreiesc, ebraic, еврей, древнееврейский язык, древнееврейский, еврейский, hibru, hebreo, jude, hebreiska, hebreisk, ชาวฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), าษาฮิบรู (ปัจจุบันคือประเทศอิสราเอลและปาเลสไตน์), musevi, ibranice, ibrani, người Hê-brơ |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, maïarský, maïarština, maïar, unkarilainen, hongrois, Ungar, Ούγγρος, "ו 'רי, magyar, ungherese, Ungaarish, Ungaaragh, unguresc, limba ungarã, limba maghiarã, ungureşte, ungur, maghiar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, ชาวฮังการี, macarca, macar, người Hung-ga-ri tiếng Hung-ga-ri |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | الإيطالي, اللغة الإيطالية, إيطالي, شخص إيطالي, италиански език, италиански, италианец, italský, italština, ital, italialainen, italien, italienisch, Ιταλός, איטלקית, איטלקי, olasz, italiano, Iddaalish, italienesc, italieneşte, italian, italianã, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italiensk, italienska, italienare, ชาวอิตาลี, เกี่ยวกับอิตาลี, าษาอิตาลี, italyanca, italyan |
Manx | fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baght | gjuha e popullsisë së ishullit men, manština, manský, manx, mann-szigeti nyelv, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, язык жителей о-ва мэн, с о-ва мэн, s ostrva mana, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, från ön man, man adası, man dili |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | portugez, portugalisht, اللغة البرتغالية, البرتغالية, البرتغالي, португалски, португалски език, португалец, portugalský, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, πορτογάλοσ, ορτογάλος, portugál, portoghese, Portiugish, Portiugagh, português, portughez, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portugis, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, người B"-đ o-nha tiếng B"-đ o-nha |
Romanian | dicţionar, definiţie, determinare, definire, translaţie, traducere, tãlmãcire | rumun, румънски език, румънски, румънец, rumunský, rumunština, romanialainen, Roumain, rumäne, ρουμανόσ, Ρουμάνος, román, rumeno, Roomainagh, romeno, român, румынский, румын, rumunski jezik, rumunski, rumano, rumänsk |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, ruština, ruský, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, Ρώσος, רוסי, orosz, russo, Rooshish, Rooshagh, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, ชาวรัสเซีย, Rusça, người Nga tiếng Nga |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | serbokroatisch, servo-croata, sârbo-croat, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk, เกี่ยวกับ าษาเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย, าษาหลักของชาวเซอร์เบียและโครเอเชีย |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | spanjoll, اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, španìlský, španìlština, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, ספר"ית, ספר"י, spanyol, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, espanhol, spaniol, spaniolesc, spanioleşte, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, definition, översättning | suedez, اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, švédský, švédština, ruotsalainen, suédois, schwedisch, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, svedese, Soolynish, Soolynagh, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, เกี่ยวกับคน าษาและวั'นธรรมของประเทศสวีเ"น, isveççe, isveç dili, isveç, Ísveçlí, người Thuỵ điển tiếng Thuỵ điển |
Thai | พจนานุกรม | thaimaalainen, Thaïlandais, thailändisch, Thailänder, Ταϊλανδός· Ταϊλανδέζος, tailandese, tailandês, tailandés, thailändare, าษาไทย, เกี่ยวกับคนไทย, ที่เกี่ยวกับประเทศไทย, คนไทย, Tayland, Taylandlı, Tayland Dili, Tai Dili |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | turk, تركي أحد أبناء تركيا, اللغة التركية, турски език, турски, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, τούρκικοσ, טורקי, török, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turcesc, turc, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, turkisk, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ |
Vietnamese | có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thích | vietnamisht, vietnamez, виетнамски език, виетнамски, vietnamec, vietnamský, vietnamka, vietnamština, vietnamilainen, vietnamien, vietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnami, vietnámi, vietnamita, вьетнамский, vijetnamski jezik, vijetnamski, vijetnamac, vietnames, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | anglezët, anglez, gjuhë zngleze, anglishte, anglisht, الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, א 'לית, angol, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglês, englezesc, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, เกี่ยวกับประเทศอังกฤษ, ชาวอังกฤษ, าษาอังกฤษ, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Translations: Modern | 9. Translations: Ancient 10. Derivations 11. Rhymes 12. Anagrams | 13. Orthography 14. Bibliography |
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