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knavish

/ney-vish/US // ˈneɪ vɪʃ //

骑士精神,小结,节制,骑士

Related Words

arrant荩荩,荩忱,荩文,荩星deceitful奸诈的,狡猾的,狡诈的,奸诈fraudulent欺诈性的,欺诈性,欺诈,诈骗frolicsome嬉皮士,嬉戏,嬉笑怒骂,嬉闹unprincipled无原则,无原则的,无原则性,无原则性的unscrupulous不良,不良的,不良行为,不择手段villainous坏人,恶人,恶棍,反派rascally无赖,无赖的,无赖地,流氓

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : like or befitting a knave; untrustworthy; dishonest.
    • : Archaic. waggish; roguish; mischievous.

Synonyms & Antonyms

adj.dishonest
Synonyms
arrant荩荩,荩忱,荩文,荩星deceitful奸诈的,狡猾的,狡诈的,奸诈fraudulent欺诈性的,欺诈性,欺诈,诈骗frolicsome嬉皮士,嬉戏,嬉笑怒骂,嬉闹rascally无赖,无赖的,无赖地,流氓unprincipled无原则,无原则的,无原则性,无原则性的unscrupulous不良,不良的,不良行为,不择手段villainous坏人,恶人,恶棍,反派

Examples

  • To his bourgeois mind, for all his imitation of the Chicago martyr, my words must have sounded knavish.

  • Side by side with Arlecchino goes his more astute and knavish brother Brighella.

  • Evermore is parade and obsequiousness suspectable: it must show either a foolish head, or a knavish heart.

  • Gangs could afford to corrupt witnesses or to pay knavish lawyers skilled in applying these vagaries of legislation.

  • 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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