knavery
action or practice characteristic of a knave.
unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery.
a knavish act or practice.
Origin of knavery
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How to use knavery in a sentence
I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysThey are,” said he, “of much sincerity and integrity far from the craft and knavery of men among us.
Archaic England | Harold BayleyI have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last.
Rest Harrow | Maurice HewlettThat a due rigour and restraint be laid upon the second, that villainy and knavery might not be encouraged by a law.
An Essay upon Projects | Daniel DefoeThe young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate.
The Saint's Tragedy | Charles Kingsley
British Dictionary definitions for knavery
/ (ˈneɪvərɪ) /
a deceitful or dishonest act
dishonest conduct; trickery
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