Fraudulent begging; vagabondage; roguery, knavery.

rascality, lewdness.

Fraudulent begging; knavery, roguery. Obsolete.

Roguery, knavery.

Performance characteristic of a losel; profligacy, debauchery, rascality.

The disposition and habits of a loon or rascal; lechery, villany.

dishonest behaviour, chicanery; lechery.

The action of truant, v.; an instance of this.

= patchery, n.1

Knavery, roguery; trickery, cheating, deception.

Lechery, fornication.

The state or character of being roguish; wickedness, villainy; (formerly also) †vagrancy (obsolete). In later use chiefly: mischievousness…

Rascally character or behaviour; a rascally act or practice.

Conduct characteristic of a rogue; rascally behaviour; misconduct. Formerly also: †the state or condition of being a tramp, vagrancy (obsolete).

Knavery. (Chiefly in Nashe.)

Trickery, knavery; spitefulness; wickedness; debauchery. Now archaic.

The character, conduct, or practices of a scoundrel; also, a piece of scoundrelism, a scoundrelly act or trait.

Roguish or mischievous behaviour; unscrupulousness, dishonesty; knavery. Also in †to go a-roguing (obsolete). Now rare.

Roguery.

The character or behaviour of a rascal. In later use esp. with reference to rascal, n. 2b.

the world of scoundrels, scoundrels collectively; also = scoundrelism, n.

The quality of being a scamp.

Rascally behaviour.

the behaviour of a scoundrel, scoundrelism.

Rascally behaviour. rascality, n. 1.

(a) roguery, (b) political opportunism.

= scallywaggery n. (a).