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Definition of Knavish

Knavish
Knavish Knav"ish, a. 1. Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick. ``Knavish politicians.' --Macaulay. 2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish. Cupid is knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad. --Shak.

Meaning of Knavish from wikipedia

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- I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call'd Robin Goodfellow: are you not he That frights the maidens...
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- Billy Young 2015 Murphy's Law Carmine 2016 California Dreaming Clark 2016 Knavish Folk Tim 2017 The Best People Johnny 2017 Emily Jack ****ens 2021 The Murders...
- still matters" The Guardian, 10 March 2016 Pimlott, Ben. Frustrate Their Knavish Tricks: Writings on Biography, History and Politics (1994) pp. 31–36. Harold...
- the name given to the 'play-within-a-play' by Hamlet himself: "'tis a knavish piece of work", he calls it. There is a reference in the 1844 novel The...
- by Sir William Jones, the Morals of Chess, by Dr. Franklin, &c". 1817. "Knavish Chess on chessvariants.org". Archived from the original on 2016-12-21....
- his enemies And make them fall Confound their politics Frustrate their knavish tricks On thee our hopes we fix God save us all These lyrics appeared in...
- withholding of information, being deliberately deceptive, or showing knavishness, perfidiousness, corruption, treachery, or deficient integrity. Dishonesty...