knavery
noun
action or practice characteristic of a knave.
knaveries
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pluralof knavery.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt.
From Time Magazine Archive
Bought and sold he was; and of course it is understood that, if you buy a knave, and expressly in consideration of his knaveries, you secretly undertake not to hang him.
From Note Book of an English Opium-Eater by Thomas De Quincey
Ah! our knave has found his match in another, who has far better tricks in his sack, a thousand kinds of knaveries and of wily words.
From The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1 by Aristophanes
This was the way, then, that the humble and primitive gobernador, who had presented himself to the travelers barefoot, was enriching himself by the knaveries of office!
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various
I'st true, youths? are Knights fit subjects for your knaveries?
From A Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 3 by A. H. (Arthur Henry) Bullen
