Wherein the knavish practices of the evil witch are only insinuated, but not yet fully divulged.
It is the saying of a knavish servant, "that nothing was shut up from him in his master's house".
I fear that cottage must needs be Arundel Castle, for my hands are so tied therein that thy knavish husband cannot fail to inherit it.
Lion or no lion," quoth the valorous Cook, "come thou straight forth, else thou art a coward heart as well as a knavish thief.
In knavish art and gathering gear They spend the one half of the year; In gathering gear and knavish art They somehow spend the other part.
It is rather a knavish trick played off upon the sire of gods and men by a wily gamester; and herein it seems to symbolize that tendency to overreach which formed a marked characteristic of the Hellenes in all ages.
I am glad of it: a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.
Onboard of most men-of-war there is a set of sly, knavish foxes among the crew, destitute of every principle of honour, and on a par with Irish informers.
Like earthly monarchs, he has his jester, "the shrewd and knavish sprite, called Robin Good-fellow.
His object is to disprove their existence, and he very justly says that the Duende was usually a knavish servant who had his own reasons for making a noise and disturbing the family.
Either I mistake your shape and making quite, Or else you are that shrewd and knavish sprite Call'd Robin Good-fellow.
Yet how can I let this knavish dog die and lose the money?
At the same time, to retain his hold on his apprentice until the expiration of his term, James resorted to a knavish expedient.
To lay duties on a commodity exported, which our neighbours want," he wrote to James Lovell in 1778, "is a knavish attempt to get something for nothing.
Good Fellows Drinks their Liquor without flinching; Then why should knavish Tapsters use such pinching.
The Porter he did give nine pence to have it in a Pye, The People ere they went from thence did feed most hartily: It was the joviall Baker, and knavish Tapster too, The Car-man was pertaker was not this a Joviall crew.
Bestir that knavish garrison of yours, and bid the lazy dogs let down the bridge.
I should not have thought that at your age you would be capable of such a knavish trick.
It is the only occasion of the kind, and the clergy, either knavish or ignorant, encourage all this shameful riot.
But to fall a sacrifice to a cabal, to the jealousy of an insidious, knavish favorite, is what makes the death-hour fearful.
With a knavish smile, Joseph Ribas conceals the brilliants in his bosom, and deposits the money in his capacious pockets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "knavish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
