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Knavishness   Listen
noun
knavishness  n.  The quality or state of being knavish; knavery; dishonesty.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Knavishness" Quotes from Famous Books



... if her movements kept pace with the progress of her realizations. Thus far she had been a loving and a believing child. The genial knavishness of her father had never appeared as such to her. In her sight he was cheery, great and lovable. Most of all she had flattered herself that he loved her better than life, and that his nights were sleepless in planning for her happiness. Now, a terrifying lapse in his care, or a more terrifying ...
— The Yoke - A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children - of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt • Elizabeth Miller



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