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Meaning of "knavishness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF KNAVISHNESS

ˈneɪvɪʃnəs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF KNAVISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Knavishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES KNAVISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Knave

Knave may refer to: ▪ A male domestic worker ▪ A journeyman ▪ Another name for Jack ▪ Knave of Hearts, a character in the Lewis Carroll book ▪ Knave, a British adult magazine ▪ Knave of Hearts, a 1954 film directed by René Clément ▪ Knaves an Alternative/Indie band based in Sheffield, England. ▪ In Knights and Knaves logic puzzles, a person who always lies ▪ Knave of Hearts, an informal name for the area of Mars being explored by the Phoenix ▪ A rogue, a rascal...

Definition of knavishness in the English dictionary

The definition of knavishness in the dictionary is deceitfulness or dishonesty.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH KNAVISHNESS

bearishness · bluishness · boyishness · brackishness · bullishness · doveishness · dovishness · dwarfishness · elfishness · elvishness · Englishness · girlishness · greenishness · hoggishness · Jewishness · qualmishness · reddishness · slavishness · sottishness · thievishness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE KNAVISHNESS

knagginess · knaggy · knap · knapped · knapper · knapping · knapping hammer · knapsack · knapweed · knar · knarly · knarred · knarry · knave · knaveries · knavery · knaveship · knavish · knavishly · knawel

WORDS THAT END LIKE KNAVISHNESS

Britishness · business · Caithness · childishness · foolishness · foppishness · freshness · harshness · highness · lushness · much of a muchness · rashness · richness · roughness · Royal Highness · selfishness · smoothness · stylishness · thoroughness · toughness · unselfishness

Synonyms and antonyms of knavishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «knavishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF KNAVISHNESS

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The translations of knavishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «knavishness» in English.
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knavishness
1,325 millions of speakers
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knavishness
570 millions of speakers
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knavishness
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knavishness
380 millions of speakers
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knavishness
280 millions of speakers
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knavishness
278 millions of speakers
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knavishness
270 millions of speakers
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ডেকরাম
260 millions of speakers
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knavishness
220 millions of speakers
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Kekufuran
190 millions of speakers
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knavishness
180 millions of speakers
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knavishness
130 millions of speakers
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knavishness
85 millions of speakers
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Knavishness
85 millions of speakers
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knavishness
80 millions of speakers
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knavishness
75 millions of speakers
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Knavishness
75 millions of speakers
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knavishness
70 millions of speakers
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knavishness
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knavishness
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knavishness
40 millions of speakers
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knavishness
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knavishness
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knavishness
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knavishness
10 millions of speakers
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knavishness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of knavishness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «KNAVISHNESS»

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about knavishness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «KNAVISHNESS»

Discover the use of knavishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to knavishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Reading and Writing in Shakespeare
"We" do not wander within the "place" that would determine "our" knavishness; rather, the transgression of the proprietary place definitive of knavishness enables both the determination of place and knavishness. Yet, being-at-home and ...
David Moore Bergeron, 1996
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Anna Karenina
... trying not to break them. “And not merely pride of intellect, but dullness of intellect. And most of all, its knavishness; yes, the knavishness of intellect. The cheating knavishness of intellect — that's it,” he repeated. XIII. And Levin remembered a ...
graf Leo Tolstoy, 1924
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Anna Karenina
The cheating knavishness of intellect, that's it," he said to himself. And he briefly went through, mentally, the whole course of his ideas during the last two years, the beginning of which was the clear confronting of death at the sight of his dear ...
Leo Tolstoy, 2012
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Anna Karenina
“And not merely pride of intellect, but dullness of intellect. And most of all, its knavishness; yes, the knavishness of intellect. Thecheating knavishness ofintellect –that's it,”herepeated. Chapter XIII And Levin remembered ascenehehad lately ...
Count Leo Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Leo Tolstoy, 2009
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The Confessions and Correspondence, Including the Letters to ...
knavishness. with. the. greatest. fidelity;83. my. only. motive. was. to. please the one who was making me do it. Nevertheless, if I had been surprised, what blows, what injuries, what cruel treatment would I not have suffered; whereas the wretch  ...
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Christopher Kelly, Roger D. Masters, 2013
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The Brief Remarker on the Ways of Man: or compendious ...
Though deceit and knavishness may sometimes procure momentary advantages, they are but momentary, and are much more than countervailed by the lasting ill consequences, which they never fail to bring after them. For not only does ...
Ezra SAMPSON, 1855
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Slavery by Any Other Name: African Life under Company Rule ...
The agent in Chemba who sent the workers attributed their flight to the “natives' knavishness,” a charge the district administrator there rejected.“The knavishness cannotbe attributed tothe natives,”hesaid,suggesting theagenthimself needed ...
Eric Allina, 2012
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Origines ecclesiasticae
Upon which our author enters into a learned disquisition, whether it was out of ignorance or knavishness, that I expounded the word aévslv, by 'being received?' To which I answer, That if our author's knowledge or charity had been as great as  ...
‎1840
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Origines Ecclesiasticæ: Or, The Antiquities of the Christian ...
Upon which our author enters into a learned disquisition, whether it was out of ignorance or knavishness, that I expounded the word, fiivuv, by being received'1. To which I answer, that if our author's knowledge or charity had been as great as  ...
Joseph Bingham, 1834
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Antiquities of the Christian church
For indeed, I expounded it just with the same ignorance or knavishness, as some of the Ancients had done before me. Particularly Innocent, bishop of Rome, who was cotemporary with St. Austin, having occasion to consider this very Canon, ...
Joseph Bingham, 1829

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «KNAVISHNESS»

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If you don't speak French, how can you judge if Charlie Hebdo is …
An infinity of pundits have made blithe diagnoses of general knavishness while not speaking any French at all. This bears repeating. No. «New Statesman, Apr 15»
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Ford scandal: There should be a way to get rid of this bozo: DiManno
... each fresh episode of jaw-dropping public knavishness and vulgarity, the steady chorus of up-yours that Ford has issued, supplementing his ... «Toronto Star, Dec 13»
3
Welcome To Rugby Club Land: Godfrey Bloom & Other Dangerous …
French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan once identified a key characteristic of the right-wing public figure as their knavishness, or the fact that ... «The Quietus, Aug 13»
4
Sekou Nkrumah Could Simply Not Work For Akufo-Addo
... not that it wasn't in any way before, is the fact that Mr. Sekou Toure's namesake is vapidly unprincipled almost to the extent of knavishness. «GhanaWeb, May 13»
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Cameron or Coulson, who's lying?
One might also note further evidence of Cameron's extreme naïveté (or knavishness). After the New York Times published new evidence that ... «New Statesman, Jun 12»
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Michael Bliss: A ringside seat at the Meech Lake circus
... about the wretched constitutional mess being foisted on the country by a political class who combined knavishness and foolishness in about ... «National Post, Sep 11»
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