Example sentences for: knavery

How can you use “knavery” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Besides, the codes claim is so fantastical that dismissing it as a piece of intellectual knavery may just be the most reasonable--as well as the most comfortable--solution.

  • ... [A]s Judges shelter their knavery by precedents, so do scholars their ignorance by authority: and when they cannot reason, it is safer and less disgraceful to repeat that nonsense at second hand, which they would be ashamed to give originally as their own.

  • As one soldier remarks: "'Tis expressly against the law of arms: 'tis as arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offer't."

  • 'tis expressly against the law of arms: 'tis an arrant a piece of knavery, mark you now, as can be offert; in your conscience, now, is it not?


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