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

Dr. Seuss: Will: Thou knave who pens these “books” for youth, with talking fauna most uncouth: Thy “doctorate”? The thought’s absurd!

From Washington Post ● Apr. 2, 2020

Further, it tells you that the other gentleman is a knight, for if he were a knave, the answering knave would have said ‘‘Yes.’’

From Scientific American ● Feb. 26, 2019

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

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

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

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

Perhaps those who cannot function at such high levels of intellectual rigor should be referred to as knaves and simpletons.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 26, 2015

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

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens