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knavery
[ ney-vuh-ree ]
- action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery.
- a knavish act or practice.
knavery
/ ˈneɪvərɪ /
- a deceitful or dishonest act
- dishonest conduct; trickery
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Example Sentences
I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.
They are,” said he, “of much sincerity and integrity far from the craft and knavery of men among us.
I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last.
That a due rigour and restraint be laid upon the second, that villainy and knavery might not be encouraged by a law.
The young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate.
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