Crossword-Solution: KNAVERY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Knavery | n. | The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. |
| Knavery | n. | Roguish or mischievous tricks. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with KNAVERY (5)
Mercury, displeased at his knavery, not only took away the golden axe, but refused to recover for him the axe he had thrown into the pool.
Even if his father could not be persuaded, they could fly to Ptarth, laying all the blame of the knavery and intrigue that had thrown four great nations into war, upon the shoulders of Nutus.
From this it has followed that evil spirits have perpetrated much knavery [exercised their malice] by appearing as the souls of the departed, and with unspeakable [horrible] lies and tricks demanded masses, vigils, pilgrimages, and other alms.
There had been two Thorpes, and one of them--the Thorpe who had always been willing to profit by knavery, and at last in a splendid coup as a master thief had stolen nearly a million, and would have shrunk not at all from adding murder to the rest, to protect that plunder--this vicious Thorpe had gone away altogether.
Crushed by the overpowering evidence against him, he allowed himself to be searched, and without much demur consented to refund the fruit of his knavery, to the amount of two thousand louis.
Quotes with KNAVERY (3)
... the pleasures of the world are chiefly folly, and the business of it mostly knavery, and both nothing better than vanity; the men of pleasure tearing one another to pieces from the emulation of spending money, and the men of business from envy in getting it.
If an eighty-six-year-old woman has been clear-seeing from a young age, she will have gone through a lot of life developing a keen eye for snares and pitfalls, an ear for deceit, and a good nose for knavery. And by such an age, a smart woman with no illusions is one to whom courage comes far more readily than it does to those young people who don't yet know the world for what it is.
But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, LAT, NYT, Onion.
Used 8 times in crossword archives (1958–2016).