“Instead, according to the same Daily Record, he is a knave and a liar.”
“Being admitted in the evening to play at cards with the Monarch and the ambassador, he pretended to make a mistake, and twice threw down a knave instead of a king.”
“Due to my poor performance as a husband, father, and provider, I can claim the role of knave, or general ne'er-do-well.”
knaveship
(uncountable) The condition of being a knave (used mockingly)
(countable, obsolete, Scotland) A quantity of corn or flour due to a miller's servant from each batch in a thirlage mill
“All of Thomas Morton's goods were seized to pay the charges of the trial, and also to make good to the Indians what they had lost through his knavishness.”
“The ever undisguised craftiness and knavishness of the imperialists is characteristic of their aggressive foreign policy after the end of the cold war.”