knavery

knavery noun artfulness, artifice, beguilement, cheat, cheating, chicanery, circumvention, corruption, cozenage, craft, craftiness, criminality, cunning, cunningness, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, defraudation, deviousness, double-dealing, dupery, duplicity, foul play, fraud, fraudulence, fraus, guile, hoax, humbuggery, insincerity, knavishness, lack of principle, lack of probity, legerdemain, malfeasance, malitia, nequitia, pettifoggery, rascality, roguery, roguishness, scampishness, scoundrelism, sharp practice, skulduggery, slyness, treachery, trick, trickery, trickiness, turpitude, underhand dealing, untrustworthiness, villainousness, villainy, wiles, wrongdoing

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See also: artifice, collusion, corruption, deception, dishonesty, evasion, hoax, imposture, improbity, mischief, misdoing, pettifoggery