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Knavery   Listen
noun
Knavery  n.  (pl. knaveries)  
1.
The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. "This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name."
2.
pl. Roguish or mischievous tricks.





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"Knavery" Quotes from Famous Books



... hand we watch with bated breath the unfolding of a story of unparalleled interest. Ever the unexpected happens, surprise follows surprise, plot is succeeded by counterplot. Vice and virtue, honor and knavery, true love and duplicity, struggle desperately and incessantly for mastery until the mind is bewildered and the heart and soul are stirred to ...
— The Blunders of a Bashful Man • Metta Victoria Fuller Victor
... life and prosperity; I have committed this fault in full reliance on your highness's forgiveness, and I hope for pardon. As I loved him from my soul and heart, I accepted his well-turned apology, and not only overlooked his knavery, but even asked him again with affection, what great difficulty has occurred that you are so thoughtful? mention it, and ...
— Bagh O Bahar, Or Tales of the Four Darweshes • Mir Amman of Dihli
... smooth villain Har-hat!" he cried in a tempest of wrath. "A murrain upon his greedy, crafty lust! The gods blast him in his knavery! Now is my precious amulet in his hands. Would it were white-hot and clung ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller
... considerable crowd had collected from the neighbouring ale-houses and cabarets, who deemed it a most fitting occasion to honour us with the most infernal yells and shouts, as indicating their love of justice, and delight in detecting knavery; and that we were both involved in such suspicion, we had not long to learn. Meanwhile the poor old maire, who had been an employe in the stormy days of the revolution, and also under Napoleon, and who full concurred with Swift that "a crowd is a mob, if composed even of bishops," firmly ...
— The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete • Charles James Lever (1806-1872)
... miserable spectacle, and the noise of their chains with the roaring of the beaten waters has something of the strange and fearful to one unaccustomed to it. They are chastised on the least disorder, and without the least humanity; yet are they cheerful and full of knavery. ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol IX. • Edited by Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton


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