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单词 knavery
释义
knavery
noun[CorU]
old-fashioned
uk
/ˈneɪ.vər.i/us
/ˈneɪ.vɚ.i/
dishonestorunfairbehaviour:
无赖行为，不正当行为
Nosystemcanwhollyprotectfoolsfrom the knavery ofothers.任何制度都不能完全保护傻瓜不受他人的欺骗。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Dishonest
  • artificiality
  • bad faith
  • be rotten to the coreidiom
  • bent
  • cowboy
  • down-and-dirty
  • dubious
  • dubiously
  • false
  • finagle
  • jackleg
  • louche
  • low-down
  • malfeasance
  • mendacious
  • sugar-coated
  • under false pretencesphrase
  • underhand
  • unreliable
  • unscrupulous
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Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
(Definition ofknaveryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofknavery

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