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knavish

[ney-vish] / ˈneɪ vɪʃ /


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Global production will likely remain "tepid" in the near term, CEO Tim Knavish said.

From Reuters • Jul. 20, 2023

Groups are led into “A Midsummer Forest,” an installation filled with oversize illustrations from “A Knavish Lad,” a pop-up book based on “A Midsummer Night’s Dream.”

From Washington Post • Jul. 21, 2022

In Stanza X, it is even replaced by the antiquated Hero's diatribe against "our modern Knavish Arts"—never to return to the rest of the poem.

From Selected Poems (1685-1700) by Tutchin, John

Now no longer Can I bear him; I will snare him, Knavish sprite!

From The Poems of Goethe Translated in the original metres by Bowring, Edgar Alfred

Knavish booksellers put forth volumes of trash under his name, and envious scribblers maintained it to be impossible that the poor ignorant tinker should really be the author of the book which was called his.

From Brave Men and Women Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs by Fuller, O. E. (Osgood Eaton)




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