knavish
[ ney-vish ]
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adjective
like or befitting a knave; untrustworthy; dishonest.
Archaic. waggish; roguish; mischievous.
Origin of knavish
1Other words from knavish
- knav·ish·ly, adverb
- knav·ish·ness, noun
Words Nearby knavish
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How to use knavish in a sentence
To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.
Prison Memoirs of an Anarchist | Alexander BerkmanSide by side with Arlecchino goes his more astute and knavish brother Brighella.
The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the first | Count Carlo GozziEvermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable: it must show either a foolish head, or a knavish heart.
Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) | Samuel RichardsonGangs could afford to corrupt witnesses or to pay knavish lawyers skilled in applying these vagaries of legislation.
The English Utilitarians, Volume I. | Leslie StephenThinking it well beneath me to measure words with this knavish pettifogger, I looked beyond him and spoke to his master.
The Master of Appleby | Francis Lynde
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