knave

[US]/neɪv/
[UK]/nev/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. rogue, scoundrel; (playing cards) jack

Example Sentences

beware of that knave

a rogue and a knave

Real-world Examples

Magic mirror instruct this knave, give him the answers he doth crave!

Source: Villains' Tea Party

It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

You know that each guard is either a knight, who always tells the truth, or a knave, who lies.

Source: WIL Life Revelation

Le Chiffre turned up a knave and a four.

Source: Casino Royale of the 007 series

" He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy" !

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?

Source: Middlemarch (Part One)

" Where is the knave" ? bluntly interrupted the scout.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Chinese)

In three days Paris will cry out: " Monsieur Grandet was a knave" !

Source: Eugénie Grandet

" Oh, I dare say he's more fool than knave" !

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

However, before you can come up with the question, Guard A calls out to you, “two of us are knaves.”

Source: WIL Life Revelation

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