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  • 81sharp practice — index artifice, knavery, maneuver (trick), misdoing, pettifoggery, ruse Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton …

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  • 82patchery — noun a) Hypocrisy; trickery. Thersites: Here is ſuch patchery, ſuch juggling and ſuch knavery! b) That which is thrown or sown together usually clumsily or with different color and textures, like patchwork. Timon: I, and you heare him cogge, ſee… …

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  • 83fourbery — noun deceit, an unprincipled action. Syn: knavery …

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  • 84Hume, David — (1711–1776) Scottish philosopher, historian, and essayist. Hume is the most influential thoroughgoing naturalist in modern philosophy, and a pivotal figure of the Enlightenment . Born the second son of a minor Scottish landowner, Hume attended… …

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  • 85duplicity — du·plic·i·ty /dü pli sə tē, dyü / n pl ties [Late Latin duplicitat duplicitas duality, double dealing, from Latin duplex twofold] 1: the use of deceptive words or actions 2: the use of more than one claim, allegation, or defense in a single… …

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  • 86mischief — I noun annoyance, criminality, cruelty, damage, damnum, danger, detriment, devilment, deviltry, disservice, evil, evil conduct, fault, foul play, frolicsomeness, harm, harmful action, hurt, ill consequence, impishness, incommodum, infliction,… …

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  • 87turpitude — tur·pi·tude / tər pə ˌtüd, ˌtyüd/ n: inherent baseness or depravity; also: a base act Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. turpitude …

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  • 88criminality — crim·i·nal·i·ty /ˌkri mə na lə tē/ n 1: the quality or state of being criminal can t understand the criminality of his act 2: crime (3) violent criminality Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of L …

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  • 89artfulness — index artifice, discretion (quality of being discreet), fraud, hypocrisy, improbity, knavery, performance (workmanship), pettifoggery …

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  • 90beguilement — index artifice, deceit, deception, falsification, fraud, hoax, knavery, pretense (pretext) …

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