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Knavery is dishonest behaviour — tricks, cheating, and sly harm. It is an old, word. You will meet it in stories, plays, and history, not in a text message. The person who does it is a knave: once this just meant a boy or a male servant, and later it came to mean a man you should not trust (like the knave on a playing card, the jack). Though actually, knavery is the pattern of acts, not one small lie. It has a slightly stagey flavour, as if the speaker is raising an . For everyday English, say , cheating, or dirty tricks.
無賴行徑；欺詐的行為（書面、偏舊）
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
knaverynoun/ˈneɪvəɹi/
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The antics or tricks of a knave; boyish mischief.
- […] Harry Monmouth, being in his right wittes and his good iudgements, turn'd away the fat Knight with the great belly doublet: he was full of ieſts, and gypes, and knaueries, and mockes; I haue forgot his name.
- The young Oxonian, on the contrary, had led out one of his maiden aunts, on whom the rogue played a thousand little knaveries with impunity; he was full of practical jokes, and his delight was to tease his aunts and cousins; yet, like all mad-cap youngsters, he was a universal favourite among the women.
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An unprincipled action; deceit.
- Caſsio’s a proper man, let me ſee now, / To get his place and to make vp my will, / A double knauery—how, how,—let me see, […]
- [A]s our little Traffick with the Natives was hitherto upon the Faith of their firſt Kindneſs, we found ſome Knavery among them at laſt; for having bought ſome Cattel of them for our Toys, […] one of our Men differing with his Chapman, truly they huff’d him in their Manner, and keeping the things he had offered them for the Cattel, made their Fellows drive away the Cattel before his Face, and laugh at him; […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。