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Knavishly   Listen
adverb
Knavishly  adv.  
1.
In a knavish manner; dishonestly; fraudulently.
2.
Mischievously; waggishly; roguishly. "Knavishly witty."





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"Knavishly" Quotes from Famous Books



... Wolves both as to Doctrine, and as to Practice too. Some men make a Profession, I doubt, on purpose that they may twist themselves into a Trade; and thence into an Estate; yea, and if need be, into an Estate Knavishly, by the ruins of their Neighbour: let such take heed, for those that do such ...
— The Life and Death of Mr. Badman • John Bunyan
... other for a great wage. False witness he bore with especial delight, required or not required, and the greatest regard being in those times paid to oaths in France, as he recked nothing of forswearing himself, he knavishly gained all the suits concerning which he was called upon to tell the truth upon his faith. He took inordinate pleasure and was mighty diligent in stirring up troubles and enmities and scandals between friends and kinsfolk and whomsoever ...
— The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio • Giovanni Boccaccio
... one lacketh two knaves of five:[541] Then one, and then one, and both knaves alive. Then two, and then two, and three at a cast, Thou knave, and thou knave, and thou knave at last. Nay knave, if ye try me by number, I will as knavishly you accumber[542] Your mind is all on your privy tithe, For all in ten me-thinketh your wit li'th. Now ten times I beseech him that high sits, Thy wife's ten commandments may search thy five wits. Then ten of my turds in ten of thy teeth, And ten on thy nose, ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume I. • R. Dodsley


Words linked to "Knavishly" :   foxily, cunningly, artfully, trickily, craftily, slyly


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