knavery

The word “knavery” has 3 syllables: kna-ve-ry

It's pronounced as /ˈneɪvəri/


What is synonym and antonym for knavery?

In the thesaurus, “knavery” has 181 synonyms and 45 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for knavery along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for knavery

  • adventure
  • affliction
  • aggravation
  • amour
  • annoyance
  • antic
  • atrocity
  • baseness
  • blackmail
  • blow
  • buffoonery
  • calamity
  • caper
  • capriccio
  • caprice
  • catastrophe
  • cheat
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • con
  • conceit
  • corruption
  • crime
  • criminality
  • crooked deal
  • curse
  • dalliance
  • debauchery
  • deceit
  • deception
  • deed
  • delusion
  • depravity
  • devilishness
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diablerie
  • diabolicalness
  • diabolism
  • dido
  • dirty pool
  • double cross
  • double-dealing
  • duplicity
  • escapade
  • exasperation
  • experience
  • extortion
  • fake
  • fancy
  • fast one
  • fast shuffle
  • feat
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • fooling
  • fooling around
  • fourberie
  • frame-up
  • fraud
  • friskiness
  • frolic
  • funny business
  • gag
  • gambit
  • game
  • goings-on
  • hankie-pankie
  • hanky-panky
  • harm
  • hatred
  • heinousness
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hoax
  • hob
  • hokey-pokey
  • hoodwinking
  • horseplay
  • hurt
  • hustle
  • ill
  • impiety
  • impishness
  • imposition
  • imposture
  • indecency
  • infamy
  • iniquity
  • injury
  • irritation
  • jest
  • joking
  • kidding
  • lark
  • lewdness
  • liaison
  • licentiousness
  • looseness
  • love affair
  • machinations
  • malevolence
  • malignity
  • maneuver
  • meanness
  • misbehavior
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • misconduct
  • misery
  • misfortune
  • mission
  • monkey business
  • monkeying
  • naughtiness
  • obscenity
  • outrage
  • pain
  • performance
  • perversity
  • play
  • playfulness
  • ploy
  • practical joke
  • prank
  • racket
  • rag
  • rascality
  • ripoff
  • roguery
  • roguishness
  • romance
  • roughhousing
  • rowdyism
  • ruin
  • ruse
  • scam
  • scoundrelism
  • sell
  • sexual activity
  • shady deal
  • shakedown
  • sham
  • sharp practice
  • shavie
  • shell game
  • shenanigans
  • sin
  • sinfulness
  • skullduggery
  • skylarking
  • sorrow
  • sportiveness
  • sting
  • stratagem
  • stunt
  • subterfuge
  • suffering
  • teasing
  • time
  • tomfoolery
  • trick
  • trickery
  • troublemaking
  • turpitude
  • vagary
  • vice
  • viciousness
  • vileness
  • villainy
  • waggery
  • waggishness
  • whim
  • whimsey
  • whimsy
  • wickedness
  • wile
  • woe
  • wrong
  • wrongdoing

Antonyms for knavery

  • advantage
  • aid
  • benefit
  • benevolence
  • blessing
  • boon
  • cheer
  • cleanness
  • comfort
  • decency
  • donation
  • faithfulness
  • forthrightness
  • fortune
  • frankness
  • gift
  • good
  • good fortune
  • good luck
  • goodness
  • gravitas
  • gravity
  • happiness
  • health
  • help
  • honesty
  • innocence
  • joy
  • kindness
  • modesty
  • morality
  • nobility
  • openness
  • pleasure
  • profit
  • propriety
  • purity
  • relief
  • seriousness
  • solemnity
  • solemnness
  • truth
  • truthfulness
  • uprightness
  • virtue

Example Sentences

  • The prince was shocked by the knavery of his closest advisors.
  • His actions were nothing but a display of knavery aimed at deceiving the people.
  • The court condemned the knavery that had led to the kingdom’s downfall.
  • She was accused of knavery after betraying her allies for personal gain.
  • The knavery of the merchant was uncovered when his lies were exposed.

On this page you'll find 226 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to knavery, such as: advantage, adventure, affliction, aggravation, aid, amour, annoyance.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

dalliance

  • a little on the side
  • affair
  • amorous play
  • amusement
  • binge
  • buffoonery
  • carrying-on
  • dabbling
  • delay
  • delaying
  • delight
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • dilly-dallying
  • diversion
  • enjoyment
  • entertainment
  • fling
  • fooling around
  • friskiness
  • frittering
  • frivoling
  • frolic
  • frolicking
  • fun
  • fun and games
  • gamboling
  • gambolling
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hilarity
  • hob
  • hobby
  • hobbyhorse
  • horseplay
  • idling
  • impishness
  • jinks
  • kick
  • knavery
  • lark
  • loafing
  • loitering
  • merriment
  • merrymaking
  • messing around
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • pastime
  • play
  • playfulness
  • playing
  • pleasance
  • pleasure
  • poking
  • procrastinating
  • procrastination
  • puttering
  • rascality
  • recreation
  • relationship
  • relaxation
  • revel
  • revelry
  • roguishness
  • rollick
  • rollicking
  • romping
  • seduction
  • sport
  • sportiveness
  • spree
  • tomfoolery
  • toying
  • trifling
  • waggery
  • wantonness
  • whoopee
  • working late at office

gag

machinations

  • amour
  • artifices
  • cabals
  • chicane
  • chicanery
  • collusions
  • complicities
  • confederacies
  • connivances
  • conspiracies
  • conspirations
  • contrivances
  • counter-conspiracies
  • counterconspiracies
  • counterplots
  • cover-ups
  • dalliance
  • deception
  • designs
  • devilry
  • dirty pool
  • dodges
  • double-dealing
  • drafts
  • fling
  • flirtation
  • fooling around
  • fourberie
  • frame-ups
  • fraud
  • funny business
  • games
  • gimmicks
  • ground plans
  • hankie-pankie
  • hokey-pokey
  • intrigues
  • knavery
  • liaison
  • love affair
  • maneuvers
  • manipulations
  • mischief
  • monkey business
  • plots
  • programs
  • rackets
  • rings
  • romance
  • schemes
  • sexual activity
  • sharp practice
  • shenanigans
  • skullduggery
  • stratagems
  • strategies
  • subterfuge
  • subterfuges
  • systems
  • trickeries
  • trickery
  • tricks

waggery

waggishness

  • aggravation
  • annoyance
  • antic
  • antics
  • buffoonery
  • caper
  • chicanery
  • devilishness
  • devilment
  • devilry
  • deviltry
  • diablerie
  • diabolicalness
  • dido
  • exasperation
  • friskiness
  • frolicsomeness
  • gaiety
  • goings-on
  • hanky-panky
  • high jinks
  • hijinks
  • hob
  • horseplay
  • impishness
  • irritation
  • jauntiness
  • knavery
  • lightheartedness
  • liveliness
  • merrymaking
  • mirth
  • misbehavior
  • mischief
  • mischievousness
  • misconduct
  • monkey business
  • monkeying
  • naughtiness
  • playfulness
  • practical joke
  • rascality
  • roguery
  • roguishness
  • roughhousing
  • skylarking
  • spiritedness
  • sportiveness
  • tomfoolery
  • trick
  • trickery
  • troublemaking
  • vivacity
  • waggery
  • wickedness

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