knavish
/ney-vish/US // ˈneɪ vɪʃ //
骑士精神,小结,节制,骑士
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adj.形容词 adjective
- 1
- : like or befitting a knave; untrustworthy; dishonest.
- : Archaic. waggish; roguish; mischievous.
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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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