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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 deception
Familiarity information: KNAVISH used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
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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