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KNAVISH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does knavish mean? 

KNAVISH (adjective)
  The adjective KNAVISH has 1 sense:

1. marked by skill in deceptionplay

  Familiarity information: KNAVISH used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


KNAVISH (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Marked by skill in deception

Synonyms:

crafty; cunning; dodgy; foxy; guileful; knavish; slick; sly; tricksy; tricky; wily

Context example:

a wily old attorney

Similar:

artful (marked by skill in achieving a desired end especially with cunning or craft)


 Context examples 


Though I had long known that his servility was false, and all his pretences knavish and hollow, I had had no adequate conception of the extent of his hypocrisy, until I now saw him with his mask off.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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