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How to use knavish in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word knavish? Here are some examples.

Sentence Examples
Oh, how one longs for the days of yore, when men were honourable and there was none of this knavish nonsense to hand.
Zanni were valet buffoons, clowns, and knavish jacks-of-all-trades.
That means catching the turn of the tide in public opinion, backing the knights of the public sector eager to do their jobs better, while recognising that all too human knavish tendencies need eternal vigilance too.
Politics is a noble and sometimes a knavish trade.
Even confessing to a crime, the man may be mad, or a knavish simulator.
Examples from Classical Literature
How could I foresee I should have to deal with a knavish sort of a nameless something?
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
But they must have forgotten all about Mr. Crow's knavish cousin, Jasper Jay.
Finally, we love De Quincey for his abhorrence of all knavish or quackish men, and his deep respect for human nature.
Some occurrence of the hour may have suggested the knavish adept with his divining-rod.
They were like monkeys for their knavish and thievish tricks.
Like knavish cards, the leaves of all great books were covertly packed.
So ridiculously were they abused by knavish and ignorant star-gazers.
Neither were they filled with goods, like those of knavish traders.
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