Definitions for knavery

knavery knav·er·y

Spelling: [ney-vuh-ree]
IPA: /ˈneɪ və ri/

Knavery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 152 anagrams from letters in knavery (aeknrvy).

Definitions for knavery

noun

  1. action or practice characteristic of a knave.
  2. unprincipled, untrustworthy, or dishonest dealing; trickery.
  3. a knavish act or practice.

Origin of knavery

First recorded in 1520-30; knave + -ery

Examples for knavery

Of clowns again, of the glory of knavery, and of the eternal type that shall endure.

In truth the depths of this man's knavery were unfathomable.

From this retreat we could see the proof of knavery in the villages below.

It is averse to knavery, to crafty guile and double-dealing.

To “resist not evil” seemed to him then only a rather feeble sort of knavery.

Folly and knavery were, for a time, completely in the ascendant.

I hold you in the fetters of your own knavery, like a trout on the hook!

They know that their knavery is no secret but they don't mind.

It was an island of happiness, behind these walls, concealed from the knavery of the world.

He was very cunning to be sure; but the "afflicted" girls could see through his knavery.

Word Value for knavery
Scrable

17

Words with friends

18

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