knavery
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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
I wish for some way to warn Cristiana of the new king’s knavery.
From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein
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
Accordingly, justice has been sold with brazen impudence, knaveries and tricks and treachery have triumphed, and a multitude of simple, innocent, down-trodden creatures, poor in spirit and impoverished in substance, have wept tears of blood.
From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi Volume the Second by Count Carlo Gozzi
But my said tutor needed no such instruction, being of himself given to all manner of knaveries.
From The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim by Hans Jacob Christoph von Grimmelshausen
As to his knaveries, they were few, and more humorous than injurious.
From Miscellanea by Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing
He had a variety of curious stories about racing knaveries, and could clear up several mysterious circumstances, which all the penetration of the "Ring" had never succeeded in solving.
From One Of Them by Charles James Lever
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