Noun
The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action.
Roguish or mischievous tricks.
Source: Webster's dictionaryKnavery and flattery are blood relations. Abraham Lincoln
On our Earth, we've perforce learned all the knavery there is to know. Poul Anderson
He that first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defense against a knave, was but an ill teacher, advising us to commit wickedness to secure ourselves. Plutarch
With art and knavery we live through half the year; with knavery and art we live through the other. Italian Proverb
Deceiving a deceiver is no knavery. Japanese Proverb
No man understands knavery better than the abbot who has been a monk. French Proverb