Lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing.
1 This actor was evidently not acquainted with even the rudiments of knavery .
2 For the generality of people he went away clever with his knavery .
3 This was low knavery seeking protection behind the black mantle of treason.
4 I'd rather have the prize-ring back than give a purse to knavery .
5 But their utility is more than counterbalanced by their importunity and knavery .
6 Did you ever hear of such a mixture of honesty and knavery ?
7 They know that their knavery is no secret but they don't mind.
8 Put it in the clear light of right and wrong, it was knavery .
9 The sea is not more unstable than are those rogues in their knavery .
10 His companions were chosen from the harlotry and knavery of the civilised world.
11 There was knavery among the Radicals, and there was violence among the Conservatives.
12 There was knavery and treachery writ large upon his ugly face.
13 All this I am pleased to hear that his knavery is found out.
14 A knave whose knavery knew no limits would hardly have suited his ends.
15 I inquire, amused at this theatrical display of their childish knavery .
16 Kami is quite capable of suspecting a man of any knavery .
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