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View synonyms for knavish
knavish
[ ney-vish ]
- like or befitting a knave; untrustworthy; dishonest.
- Archaic. waggish; roguish; mischievous.
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- knavish·ly adverb
- knavish·ness noun
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Example Sentences
To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.
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Side by side with Arlecchino goes his more astute and knavish brother Brighella.
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Evermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable: it must show either a foolish head, or a knavish heart.
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Gangs could afford to corrupt witnesses or to pay knavish lawyers skilled in applying these vagaries of legislation.
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Thinking it well beneath me to measure words with this knavish pettifogger, I looked beyond him and spoke to his master.
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