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From their study of English history, they learned what might be called the law of knavery: there aren’t any good ways to get rid of a bad king.
From The New Yorker ● Oct. 21, 2019
“I only know that it is mixed, that you cannot separate good from bad, that wisdom, courage and benevolence exist alongside knavery, greed and stupidity; heroism and fortitude alongside vainglory, cruelty and corruption.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
We like to think of our transgressions as caused less by our own knavery than by the wrong genes or maltreatment in childhood.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 7, 2011
After years of deception, exploitation, and knavery, the Sixers have finally managed to buy and cheat their way to the entrance of the Third Gate.
From "Ready Player One: A Novel" by Ernest Cline
Told in the fictitious third person of Jim's confidant and publicity man, it records the entire gamut of his knaveries, but gives him where possible the benefit of the doubt.
From Time Magazine Archive
His mind was far, far away from the spot, deep in cares and wiles and schemes; for his was an intriguing head, and had its own store of knaveries.
From Tony Butler by Charles James Lever
Sidi, the cannonier, again! plotting his knaveries with the two Moorish slaves of Cortes!
From Calavar or The Knight of The Conquest, A Romance of Mexico by Robert Montgomery Bird
But most of all he abhorred the knaveries that craftsmen sometimes commit, of which, having been in France, and having heard something of them, he was only too well able to speak.
From Lives of the most Eminent Painters Sculptors and Architects Vol 08 (of 10) Bastiano to Taddeo Zucchero by Giorgio Vasari
They are not ignorant of the frauds, the knaveries, the fables, and hypocrisies, by which that system is supported.
From Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge by James Aitken Wylie
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