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knavery

noun as in deceitfulness

noun as in villainy

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Example Sentences

I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.

They are,” said he, “of much sincerity and integrity far from the craft and knavery of men among us.

I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last.

That a due rigour and restraint be laid upon the second, that villainy and knavery might not be encouraged by a law.

The young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate.

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On this page you'll find 223 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to knavery, such as: double-dealing, duplicity, and wile.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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