Although it is rather timid in some ways, there also seems to be something approaching knavery in this scheme.
I do not think he accused us of knavery but only of folly.
I hope that they will listen to the horse industry and correct the anomaly, demonstrating that they are guilty neither of folly nor of knavery.
Then there are gimmicks—gimmicks which descend to trickery and, in some cases, almost to knavery.
This is an ability which carries with it no guarantee of virtue, and not infrequently a sniff of knavery.
We are not down on lawyers as a class, but the usual knavery and unfair treatment of the people must be stopped.
As a traveling salesman and correspondence clerk, his research and thought was time-limited: he complained of serving the knavery of merchants and the stupefaction of deceitful and degrading duties.
