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Definition of Knaveries
1. knavery [n] - See also: knavery
Lexicographical Neighbors of Knaveries
Literary usage of Knaveries
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Early English Prose Romances: With Bibliographical and Historical Introductions by William John Thoms (1858)
"... laughed their fill, he loosed the gallant, who went and swore all that he
could he would be revenged on him. In such monstrous intolerable knaveries, ..."
2. Mores Catholici: Or, Ages of Faith by Kenelm Henry Digby (1894)
"... by self-interest and the checking and balancing of greedy knaveries, and that,
in short, there is nothing divine whatever in the association of men. ..."
3. The Real Blake: A Portrait Biography by Edwin John Ellis (1907)
"I have been too often tempted at the daily relation of new knaveries to despise
... knaveries are knaveries. See No. 559. This aphorism seems to me to want ..."
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