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How to use knavery in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word knavery? Here are some examples.

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Let's bring you up to date, briefly, with the mischievous knavery going on in the storied Tuscany Valley vineyards.
But this material is so swamped in trickery and knavery that its inclusion becomes worthless.
No doubt the chancers behind this scam would later graduate to the kind of knavery witnessed at Kingston police court in the same month.
Those convinced of his knavery, however, are unlikely to accept this judgment as definitive.
Other cities may let such things go, but we don't stand for any such knavery here.
Some very recent examples will suffice to persuade us that piety and knavery are incompatible.
Hearst's life was so full of knavery and perversity that Mankiewicz simply sorted out the plums.
Why should the easy-going Vandenberg have revered a believer in the knavery of men?
He had the gift to reveal the model's hidden sins one after the other: their knavery, vileness, trickery.
The initial quest for gold in Canada is a story of ignorance and knavery, involving the explorer Martin Frobisher, and one, a promoter and London merchant, Michael Lok by name.
Examples from Classical Literature
His companions were chosen from the harlotry and knavery of the civilised world.
Of clowns again, of the glory of knavery, and of the eternal type that shall endure.
It was an island of happiness, behind these walls, concealed from the knavery of the world.
His friend Charley, who introduced him to the columns of the penny whistle, was the first who opened his eyes to the knavery.
Folly and knavery were, for a time, completely in the ascendant.
Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.
I am in half a mind to thrash you, in which case you will be the first to reap the fruits of your scurvy knavery.
Bute's tale was, that the knavery of the pair was irremediable, and that no properly conducted person should ever notice them again.
It is averse to knavery, to crafty guile and double-dealing.
These were two brothers living upon the earth who practiced every kind of knavery.
In truth the depths of this man's knavery were unfathomable.
I hold you in the fetters of your own knavery, like a trout on the hook!
They know that their knavery is no secret but they don't mind.
From this retreat we could see the proof of knavery in the villages below.
From whence is it that the knave is generally so quick-sighted to those symptoms and operations of knavery, which often dupe an honest man of a much better understanding?
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