knavery
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The common Virtue of the World appears only a Cloak for Knavery; and it's Friendships no more than Bargains of Self-Interest.
From The Toy Shop (1735) The King and the Miller of Mansfield (1737) by Dodsley, Robert
Taylor's reply, which came out in 1699, was entitled Popery, Superstition, Ignorance, and Knavery Confess'd and fully Proved on the Surey Dissenters....
From A History of Witchcraft in England from 1558 to 1718 by Notestein, Wallace
The same penchant for comedy appears in Down with Knavery, a very free and lively adaptation of the Plutus of Aristophanes.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by Saintsbury, George
Knavery may serve for a turn, but honesty is best in the long run.
From Dictionary of English Proverbs and Proverbial Phrases With a Copious Index of Principal Words by Preston, Thomas
Now, by that time his breaking was come to his Creditors ears, he had by Craft and Knavery made so sure of what he had, that his Creditors could not touch a penny.
From Life and Death of Mr. Badman by Bunyan, John
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