knavish English

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knavish

— adjective (= cunning, foxy, slick, sly, tricky, wily) marked by skill in deception cunning men often pass for wise deep political machinations a foxy scheme a slick evasive answer sly as a fox tricky Dick a wily old attorney

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roguish

tricky

rascally

sly

cunning

crafty

scoundrelly

wily

tricksy

slick

guileful

fraudulent

foxy

dodgy

witty

wicked

wayward

waggish

vile

unruly

unprincipled

trouble-making

trickish

roughish

rough

rogue

misbehaved

jocular

iniquitous

inglorious

infamous

ignominious

ignoble

good for nothing

dishonorable

dishonest

delinquent

deceptive

coward

blackguardly

base