Definitions
lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
Word origin
From knave + -ery.
Used in a sentence
“[…] Harry Monmouth, being in his right wittes and his good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight with the great belly doublet: he was full of ieſts, and gypes, and knaueries, and mockes; I haue forgot his name.”
“Caſsio’s a proper man, let me ſee now, / To get his place and to make vp my will, / A double knauery—how, how,—let me see, […]”
“O, Hang 'em—no—wine does but draw forth a man's natural qualities; and to make them drink would only be to whet their Knavery.”
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Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Dishonest behavior”7 letters
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