| 词汇 | knavery |
| 释义 | knavery noun[ C or U ] old-fashioneduk /ˈneɪ.vər.i/ us /ˈneɪ.vɚ.i/ dishonest or unfair behaviour: 无赖行为，不正当行为 No system can wholly protect fools from the knavery of others.任何制度都不能完全保护傻瓜不受他人的欺骗。 Dishonest artificiality bad faith be rotten to the coreidiom bent cowboy dubiously false finagle fishy fly-by-night mendacious mendaciously misleading misleadingly perjured under false pretencesphrase underhand unreliability unreliable unscrupulous You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly Examples of knaveryknavery Although it is rather timid in some ways, there also seems to be something approaching knavery in this scheme. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not think he accused us of knavery but only of folly. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Then there are gimmicks—gimmicks which descend to trickery and, in some cases, almost to knavery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This is an ability which carries with it no guarantee of virtue, and not infrequently a sniff of knavery. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 We are not down on lawyers as a class, but the usual knavery and unfair treatment of the people must be stopped. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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