Words similar to knavery

Example sentences for: knavery

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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?
... [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.
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.