Antonyms for knavery

Grammar : Noun

Spell : ney-vuh-ree

Phonetic Transcription : ˈneɪ və ri

Definition of knavery

Origin : 1520s, from knave + -ery.

As in swindle : noun cheating, stealing
As in villainy : noun wickedness
As in deceitfulness : noun craftiness
As in peccancy : noun evil
As in evil : noun badness, immorality; disaster
As in hanky-panky : noun monkey business

Example sentences :

They know that their knavery is no secret but they don't mind.
Extract from : « Albert Durer » by T. Sturge Moore

To “resist not evil” seemed to him then only a rather feeble sort of knavery.
Extract from : « Dr. Sevier » by George W. Cable

From this retreat we could see the proof of knavery in the villages below.
Extract from : « John Splendid » by Neil Munro

He was very cunning to be sure; but the "afflicted" girls could see through his knavery.
Extract from : « Dulcibel » by Henry Peterson

Folly and knavery were, for a time, completely in the ascendant.
Extract from : « Lives of the Engineers » by Samuel Smiles

Of clowns again, of the glory of knavery, and of the eternal type that shall endure.
Extract from : « Dream Days » by Kenneth Grahame

In truth the depths of this man's knavery were unfathomable.
Extract from : « The History of England from the Accession of James II. » by Thomas Babington Macaulay

It was an island of happiness, behind these walls, concealed from the knavery of the world.
Extract from : « The Daughter of an Empress » by Louise Muhlbach

I hold you in the fetters of your own knavery, like a trout on the hook!
Extract from : « Love and Intrigue » by Friedrich Schiller

It is averse to knavery, to crafty guile and double-dealing.
Extract from : « Epistle Sermons, Vol. II » by Martin Luther

Synonyms for knavery

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