knavery

/ney-vuh-ree/US // ˈneɪ və ri //UK // (ˈneɪvərɪ) //

奴隶制,奴役,奴隶制度,骑士精神

Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
plural knav·er·ies.
- : action or practice characteristic of a knave.
- : unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery.
- : a knavish act or practice.

as inswindle

Synonyms

I could grudge him, for his knavery and dissimulation, though I do not envy much the having the same place myself.
They are,” said he, “of much sincerity and integrity far from the craft and knavery of men among us.
I have played the knave so long with you that it is perhaps the greatest knavery I can commit to be honest at last.
That a due rigour and restraint be laid upon the second, that villainy and knavery might not be encouraged by a law.
The young mail being hid, after some knavery, behind the arras, in come our quidam and that prelate.