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Examples
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They are not smart enough to realize that they are protecting the same interests that are kniving them in the back – and laughing all the way to the bank.
Hoyer: A bill can pass the House without a public option 2009
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A deceptive, kniving, back stabbing, "say anything" politician who will stomp on anyone who goes against her????
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He looked up and ran 80 feet, kniving through four Piston defenders for the left handed lay up.
The Closer Like Kyra Sedgwick AKA 12 Down, 4 To Go Dart Adams 2008
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Bus as this kniving politician will soon find out, you cant win without the jews.
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I ran in and found two of the men kniving each other over a piece of money which we had given the servants for their attention to us.
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If it had been in France, there would have been half-a-dozen duels, and I fully expected to see some kniving; but with them it was only hilarity and good spirits, and they embraced across the table at the very moment I thought they were going to hit one another.
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I would like to think that to win at Scrabble you don't need to know a tiring list of words (but memorising 2 letter words/3 letter words help a lot) but with a bit of luck and kniving tactics, you'd win at anything, man.
natinski Diary Entry natinski 2006
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Had it been practicable to hold a session on Great Bear Lake, to determine the trade relations between the copper-kniving Eskimos and the meat-swapping Yellow Knife Indians,
The Masques of Ottawa Domino
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If it had been in France, there would have been half-a-dozen duels, and I fully expected to see some kniving; but with them it was only hilarity and good spirits, and they embraced across the table at the very moment I thought they were going to hit one another.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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I ran in and found two of the men kniving each other over a piece of money which we had given the servants for their attention to us.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton William Henry Burton Wilkins 1897
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