noun

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A boy; especially, a boy servant.

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Any male servant; a menial.

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A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person.

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A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.

Examples of knave in a Sentence

The person who drew up the agreement is either a great knave or a great fool.

Knox does not seem to have known beforehand of Rizzio's "slaughter," which had been intended to be a semi-judicial act; but soon after it he records that "that vile knave Davie was justly punished, for abusing of the commonwealth, and for other villainy which we list not to express."

From the Greek sophists they borrowed ingenious ways of playing off one duty against another, or duty in general against self-interest - leaving the doubter in the alternative of neglecting the one and being a knave, or neglecting the other and being a fool.

It had a knave and chancel and the knave is all that remains.

Second novel, King, Queen, Knave appears, and causes the first stirrings of interest and controversy.

It cannot reasonably be subordinated even to the moral faculty; in fact, a man who doubts the coincidence of the two - which on religious grounds we must believe to be complete in a morally governed world - is reduced to the " miserable dilemma whether it is better to be a fool or a knave."

The town lies on the Roman Watling Street, and remains of earthworks are seen at Knave's Castle, on the Street, and at Castle Old Fort, 2 m.

Swift, who was intimate with him, speaks of him as "an arrant knave"; but the dean may have been disappointed at being unmentioned in Rivers's will, for he made a fierce comment on the earl's bequests to his mistresses and his neglect of his friends.

Throughout the history of card games people have always tended to attach a personal name to the Knave of the best or trump suit.

The writers of the next century generally condemned him as a mixture of knave, fanatic and hypocrite, and in 1839 John Forster endorsed Landor's verdict that Cromwell lived a hypocrite and died a traitor.

The knave, double or quits... it can't be!...

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