knave
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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
Perhaps he is more pathetic than dictatorial, more fool than knave.
From Washington Post • Mar. 28, 2019
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
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
Vocabulary lists containing knave
Romeo and Juliet
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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Julius Caesar
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