knavery
21Knaveries — Knavery Knav er*y, n.; pl. {Knaveries}. 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. [1913 Webster] This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man s name. Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. pl. Roguish or mischievous… …
22there are tricks in every trade — 1632 M. PARKER (title) Knavery in all Trades. 1654 Mercurius Fumigosus 12–19 July 49 If there be not Knavery in All Trades, I shrewdly am mistaken. 1692 R. L’ESTRANGE Fables of Aesop clxxxiii. Jupiter appointed Mercury to make him a Composition… …
23deception — de·cep·tion /di sep shən/ n 1: an act of deceiving 2: something that deceives: deceit Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996 …
24Wäre die Welt mein — Filmdaten Deutscher Titel Wäre die Welt mein Originaltitel Were the World Mine …
25miracle — (Lat., miror, I wonder at). Augustine propounds a subjective definition of a miracle: it is ‘whatever is hard or appears unusual beyond the expectation or comprehension of the observer’. It is only our habits of mind, therefore, that prevent us… …
26artifice — ar·ti·fice / är tə fəs/ n: a clever strategy usu. intended to deceive or defraud Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. artifice …
27corruption — I noun abuse of public trust, act of bribing, act of profiteering, baseness, breach of faith, breach of trust, bribery, complicity, conduct involving graft, corrupt inducement, corruptela, corruptibility, corruptio, crime, criminality, debasement …
28dishonesty — I noun bad faith, cheating, chicane, chicanery, corruption, corruptness, cozenage, deceit, deceitfulness, deception, deviation from probity, dishonor, disingenuousness, disposition to deceive, disposition to defraud, disposition ro lie, duplicity …
29hoax — I noun artifice, beguilement, canard, cheat, chicanery, circumvention, counterfeit, cozenage, deceit, deception, defraudation, delusion, device, dupery, duplicity, fabrication, fake, false alarm, false report, falsification, fraud, fraudulence,… …
30pettifoggery — I noun artfulness, artifice, bamboozlement, cheating, chicane, chicanery, circumvention, corruption, cozenage, craft, craftiness, cunning, deceit, deception, dishonesty, dodgery, duplicity, equivocation, evasion, foul play, fraud, fraudulence,… …
