Knavery is another word that should have a comeback.
In the current moment, there is a great deal of knavery afoot. It’s not so much royal as political but it is categorically knavery. We use the word shenanigans more now but political shenanigans doesn’t quite reflect the layer of mischief that is inherent in knavery.
The knavery that the Republicans have gotten up to and continue to get up to – it boggles the mind. Russian knavery. Republican knavery. Capitalist knavery. Corporate knavery.