Knavery

/ˈneɪvəɹi/

Synonyms for "knavery" (83 found)

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actus reusillicit conductimmoral conductmisconductmoral failingsocial critiquewrongdoingwrongful conduct

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card game deceptioncheatingcorruptiondeceptionfraudgambling trickerygraftscam

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institutional knaverymoral knaverypetty knaverypolitical knaverypublic knavery

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Sample sentences

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[…] Harry Monmouth, being in his right wittes and his good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight with the great belly doublet: he was full of ieſts, and gypes, and knaueries, and mockes; I haue forgot his name.

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The young Oxonian, on the contrary, had led out one of his maiden aunts, on whom the rogue played a thousand little knaveries with impunity; he was full of practical jokes, and his delight was to tease his aunts and cousins; yet, like all mad-cap youngsters, he was a universal favourite among the women.

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Caſsio’s a proper man, let me ſee now, / To get his place and to make vp my will, / A double knauery—how, how,—let me see, […]

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[A]s our little Traffick with the Natives was hitherto upon the Faith of their firſt Kindneſs, we found ſome Knavery among them at laſt; for having bought ſome Cattel of them for our Toys, […] one of our Men differing with his Chapman, truly they huff’d him in their Manner, and keeping the things he had offered them for the Cattel, made their Fellows drive away the Cattel before his Face, and laugh at him; […]

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