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roguery
CIDE DICTIONARY
roguery, n.
- The life of a vargant. [1913 Webster]
- The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. [1913 Webster]"'Tis no scandal grown,
For debt and roguery to quit the town." [1913 Webster] - Arch tricks; mischievousness. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
roguery
baseness, chicanery, degradation, devilishness, devilment, devilry, deviltry, elfishness, foolishness, high spirits, impishness, knavery, knavishness, mischief, mischievousness, moral turpitude, playfulness, prankishness, pranksomeness, puckishness, rascality, rascalry, reprobacy, roguishness, scampishness, scoundrelism, sportiveness, turpitude, vileness, villainousness, villainy, waggery, waggishness, youthful spiritsROGET THESAURUS
roguery
Improbity
N improbity, dishonesty, dishonor, deviation from rectitude, disgrace, fraud, lying, bad faith, Punic faith, mala fides, Punica fides, infidelity, faithlessness, Judas kiss, betrayal, breach of promise, breach of trust, breach of faith, prodition, disloyalty, treason, high treason, apostasy, nonobservance, shabbiness, villainy, villany, baseness, abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling, perfidy, perfidiousness, treachery, double dealing, unfairness, 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, dishonest, dishonorable, unconscientious, unscrupulous, fraudulent, knavish, disgraceful, wicked, false-hearted, disingenuous, unfair, one-sided, double, double- hearted, double-tongued, double-faced, timeserving, crooked, tortuous, insidious, Machiavelian, dark, slippery, fishy, perfidious, treacherous, perjured, infamous, arrant, foul, base, vile, ignominious, blackguard, contemptible, unrespectable, abject, mean, shabby, little, paltry, dirty, scurvy, scabby, sneaking, groveling, scrubby, rascally, pettifogging, beneath one, low-minded, low-thoughted, base-minded, undignified, indign, unbecoming, unbeseeming, unbefitting, derogatory, degrading, infra dignitatem, beneath one's dignity, ungentlemanly, ungentlemanlike, unknightly, unchivalric, unmanly, unhandsome, recreant, inglorious, corrupt, venal, debased, mongrel, faithless, of bad faith, false, unfaithful, disloyal, untrustworthy, trustless, trothless, lost to shame, dead to honor, barratrous, dishonestly, mala fide, like a thief in the night, by crooked paths, Int, O tempora!, O mores!, corruptissima respublica plurimae leges.For further exploring for "roguery" in Webster Dictionary Online