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knavish

adjective as in dishonest

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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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On this page you'll find 20 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to knavish, such as: arrant, deceitful, fraudulent, frolicsome, rascally, and unprincipled.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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