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What (who) is knavish - definition
Knavish
·adj Mischievous; roguish; waggish.
II. Knavish ·adj Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.
knavish
a.
Dishonest, unprincipled, villanous, rascally, scoundrelly, fraudulent, trickish, tricky, roguish.
knavishness
n.
Dishonesty, rascality. See knavery.
Examples of use of knavish
1. Several tried to write more peaceable versions of the second verse, which urges: "Scatter her enemies, And make them fall; Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish tricks." Poet Percy Shelley produced his rewrite in 181', and other efforts followed in 1830, 1836, 18'4 and 1'15.