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Meanings of knave in English

Portuguese
valete
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A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier.

        valete
        Portuguese
        maroto
        Catalan
        brètol
        Spanish
        granuja

        A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel.

            maroto
            Usage of knave in English
            1
            You forgot the knave in the wit; and the mistake was incurable.
            Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia
            2
            God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest.
            Candide
            3
            The names of knave and king offend the ears of a patriot.
            The Gods are Athirst
            4
            Tremble, knave; I will convict you of having stolen thirty thousand drachmae.
            The Eleven Comedies, Volume 1
            5
            And sae I dinna believe a word the fause knave Frisbie says.
            Self-Raised; Or, From the Depths
            6
            A knave turned up on the right, a seven on the left.
            The Lock and Key Library: The Most Interesting Stories of All Na...
            7
            Falstaff is the most agreeable and entertaining knave that ever was portrayed.
            Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
            8
            The knave has a good idea of his master's notions and designs.
            A True Hero: A Story of the Days of William Penn
            9
            Violante at least shall not be the prize of that thin-lipped knave.
            "My Novel" — Volume 12
            10
            What have you been bandying my name about for, you stinking knave?'
            Sovereign
            11
            Moreover the last iron we had from that knave Mepham is nought.
            The Armourer's Prentices
            12
            The man who seems to is either a sentimentalist or a knave.
            The Street Called Straight
            13
            She took him for a knave expectant of some chance to maraud.
            Clayhanger
            14
            Plague on the knave that hath put coldness 'twixt thee and me.
            The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 / A Magazine...
            15
            One night an unprincipled knave undertook to rob us while we slept.
            Jack in the Forecastle; or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawse...
            16
            I was convinced that the boy was a knave who deceived you.'
            The Magician
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