135 examples of knavery in sentences

" "Not on account of thy sin art thou forbidden, my son," returned Buddha, "but on account of the ridiculous and unsavoury plight to which thy knavery and disobedience have reduced thee.

War is despised or feared, courage less to be relied upon than astute knavery, and one of the facts that strikes us is the general frivolity, dishonesty, and cruelty which prevail through the tales of Bagdad.

Thevenin, poor soul, was in great feather: he had done a good stroke of knavery that afternoon in the Faubourg St. Jacques, and all night he had been gaining from Montigny.

True, you will find fraud, cunning, knavery, and robbery, but you will find also the most unsophisticated innocence.

all our shifting knavery's known; we are counted very vagrants.

Faith, agreed: let's go into some place where we are not known, and there set up the art of knavery with the second edition.

I conjecture here's some knavery,fast locked with sleep, in good faith.

Pouch and pocket-fillings, Knavery and worse Oh, the crowns and shillings In the miser's purse!

; abjection, debasement, turpitude, moral turpitude, laxity, trimming, shuffling. perfidy; perfidiousness &c adj.; treachery, double dealing; unfairness &c adj.; knavery, roguery, rascality, foul play; jobbing, jobbery; graft, bribery; venality, nepotism; corruption, job, shuffle, fishy transaction; barratry, sharp practice, heads I win tails you lose; mouth honor &c (flattery) 933.

Virgil's description of fame, that reaches from earth to the stars, tam ficti pravique tenax, to carry lies and knavery, will serve astrologers without any sensible variation.

I haven't been detected in any knavery; I'm respectful to my elders.

For what sort of knavery, sir? RISPOLÓZHENSKY.

What do you mean by knavery!

9. both urgeth and answers), besides the covetousness, imposture, and knavery of priests, quae faciunt (as Postellus observes) ut rebus sacris minus faciant fidem; and those religions some of them so fantastical, exorbitant, so violently maintained with equal constancy and assurance; whence they infer, that if there be so many religious sects, and denied by the rest, why may they not be all false?

But at this age can smell your knavery.

I say wilful because the instances I have mentioned had something of necessity in them, from my youth, inexperience, and the knavery of others.

Visions of gallantry, knavery, robbery, flocked into her brain and rendered her afraid to question him.

While this was done, two of the sick men, Lodlo and Bute, boldly reproached their shipmates for their wickedness, telling them, that their knavery would show itself, and that their actions were prompted by mere vengeance, not the wish to preserve their lives.

His judgment was penetrating and manly, totally unmixed with imbecility and confusion, while at the same time there was such an uncontending frankness in his countenance, that a superficial observer would have supposed he must have been the prey of the first plausible knavery that was practised against him.

FADDLE (William), a "fellow made up of knavery and noise, with scandal for wit and impudence for raillery.

Generally, men make the fatal mistake of assuming that honour must always clash with their interests, while in reality, says Cicero, "they would obtain their ends best, not by knavery and underhand dealing, but by justice and integrity".

Growth and Knavery.

They are chastised on the least disorder, and without the least humanity; yet are they cheerful and full of knavery.

Besides being very debauched, he has more knavery than mission.

"He had no judgment of character," and was too honest to believe in knavery.

135 examples of  knavery  in sentences