Synonyms for knavery
Most common
dishonesty criminality trickery villainy knavishness rakehood
All synonyms
Noun
1. Villainy
villainy, dishonesty, criminality, trickery, chicanery, vileness, rascality, roguery, scoundrelism
Other
knavishness, rakehood, fourbery dated
Definitions
- n. 1
The antics or tricks of a knave; boyish mischief.
Forms
- Plural
- knaveries → villainies, dishonesties, criminalities, trickeries…
Example sentences
- dishonesty He denounced all forms of dishonesty in government.
- criminality Institutionalized criminality will likely remain in Morocco.
- trickery The ones who lack courage, exceed in trickery.
- villainy You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| knavery | steady | |
| dishonesty | steady | |
| criminality | rising | |
| trickery | rising | |
| villainy | steady | |
| knavishness | steady |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 7 letters
- roguery
- 8 letters
- trickery3, villainy, vileness, rakehood, fourbery
- 9 letters
- chicanery4, rascality
- 10 letters
- dishonesty4
- 11 letters
- criminality5, knavishness
- 12 letters
- scoundrelism
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (trickery3 = 3 syllables).