knavery

How To Use knavery In A Sentence

• Knavery may serve, but honesty is best. 
• But this material is so swamped in trickery and knavery that its inclusion becomes worthless.
• This is just the latest punch in a long fight against Google: last year the alliance compared the settlement to John D. Rockefeller's "knavery" in colluding with railroads in the 19th century. National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals
• The Tea Party candidate represents the worst species of brazenness, brainlessness, knavery, and hypocrisy since the Know-Nothings of the 1840s and 1850s, a party driven by popular fears that the country would be taken over by German and Irish Catholic immigrants, hostile to Anglo-Saxon values. Robert Brustein: Reviling Obama
• Those convinced of his knavery, however, are unlikely to accept this judgment as definitive.
• Leclère, to lay his heavy hand on the bit of pulsating puppy life, to press and prod and mould till it became a big bristling beast, acute in knavery, overspilling with hate, sinister, malignant, diabolical. Batard
• Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
• Other cities may let such things go, but we don't stand for any such knavery here.
• Now, I think that the longer we preserve that abhorrence for knavery which is the generous instinct of youth, why, the fairer will be our manhood, and the more reverend our age. My Novel — Complete
• To him, a perfectly unintelligible will is a thing of beauty and a joy for ever; especially if associated with some kind of recondite knavery. The Eye of Osiris