Example Sentences
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The 828 was sobbing for the start when he climbed to the foot-board, and the engineer, who knew him, grinned knavishly.
From A Romance in Transit by Lynde, Francis
The former writes knavishly foolish, and the other silly bombast.
From Letters of John Keats to His Family and Friends by Keats, John
If the people or the states should stop to inquire into their cost, they would be acting knavishly.
From Monopolies and the People by Cloud, D. C.
It is knavishly praised; give me your hand.
From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2 by Hazlitt, William Carew
So the Music-hall Muse "winks" knowingly, and knavishly, at her audience, and her audience "laugh heartily," in Jovian guffaws, at her winks.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891 by Various
