Knavishly: alternatives and connections

To take secretly or dishonestly; to purloin; as, to abstract goods from a parcel, or money from a till.

To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.

Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.

To appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as property intrusted to one's care; to apply to one's private uses by a breach of trust…

To manipulate fraudulently, so as to make an object appear better or other than it really is; as, to fake a bulldog, by burning his up…

The act of forging, fabricating, or producing falsely; esp., the crime of fraudulently making or altering a writing or signature purpo…

To deprive fraudulently; to cheat; to dupe; to impose upon.

The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.

A knavish woman.

Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish t…

The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.

To control the action of, by management; as, to manipulate a convention of delegates; to manipulate the stock market; also, to manage…

An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.

Hence: To bring together or make up unfairly and fraudulently, in order to secure a certain result; as, to pack a jury or a causes.

To take clandestinely or fraudulently.

That which is obtained, got, or acquired, in any manner, honestly or dishonestly; property; possession; acquisition.

A horse that is not entitled to take part in a race, but is fraudulently got into it.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.