knavery

noun
/ˈneɪvəɹi/

Etymology

From knave + -ery.

  1. inherited from *knabō
  2. inherited from cnafa
  3. inherited from knave
  4. suffixed as knavery — “knave + ery

Definitions

  1. The antics or tricks of a knave

    The antics or tricks of a knave; boyish mischief.

    • […] 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.
  2. An unprincipled action

    An unprincipled action; deceit.

    • 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, […]
    • He conſider'd juſtly, that it was not requiſite, in order to reject a Fact of this Nature, to be able accurately to diſprove the Teſtimony, and to trace its Falſhood, thro' all the Circumſtances of Knavery and Credulity, which produc'd it.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA