knave

Example Sentences

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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

He approvingly quotes the Scottish philosopher R. M. Wenley, who called it, among other things, the resort “of the knave, who knows just enough about life to deem himself able to laugh at it.”

From New York Times • Aug. 1, 2018

“Comey is a hero or a knave depending on your perspective,” Eisenhower told me.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2018

That has continued to be the central complaint against rhetoric ever since: that it gives the plausible ignoramus or the self- interested dissembler—the knave or the fool—power over the good and the wise.

From "Words Like Loaded Pistols" by Sam Leith