knave

The late Renaissance came to life in knave overalls with blousy tops, sequined skirts that suggested chain mail armor and tapestry detailing on jacket sleeves.

From Seattle Times ● May 25, 2023

The answer is ‘‘No.’’ This tells you that the speaker is a knave, for a knight would answer ‘‘Yes.’’

From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2019

Sources of pleasure, in different forms in every stage of life, are too hard to find and too hard to replace once lost, to let any rich knave own your enjoyment.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 15, 2018

But who is the knave and who is the hero remains the question, because often they are both.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2014

Vexed and annoyed, I cried out to the absent Hamlet, “You are a knave indeed to abuse me so with your lies and promises! You are not worthy of my love!”

From "Ophelia" by Lisa Klein

Despite another two-plus centuries of self-regulation and government regulation, the line between honest men and knaves on Wall Street remains fluid.

From Barron's ● Mar. 1, 2026

It is led by a fool who is surrounded by knaves.

From Salon ● Jan. 7, 2023

Full disclosure: I and my coauthors sprinkled knights and knaves all over our logic book.

From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2019

I thought that these moms would want to talk about what they’d done wrong as parents to have raised sons who might be villains, or at least knaves.

From Time ● Sep. 6, 2017

“He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy!” said Estella with disdain, before our first game was out.

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens