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Significados de
knavish
em inglês
Marked by skill in deception.
cunning
tricky
slick
sly
crafty
wily
dodgy
foxy
tricksy
guileful
Termos relacionados
artful
Sinônimos
Examples for "
cunning
"
cunning
tricky
slick
sly
crafty
Examples for "
cunning
"
1
This demands quite a bit of hard work, not to say
cunning
.
2
Perhaps, by sheer nerve and animal
cunning
,
you'll survive for a year.
3
There was no
cunning
in the speech: it was the simple truth.
4
Money and power and privilege run the Beautiful Game - and
cunning
.
5
Though
cunning
in many ways, the opossum is singularly simple in others.
1
She responded: This is a
tricky
question that isn't easy to answer.
2
It may look
tricky
,
but chopsticks are really quite easy to use.
3
Ah, of course:
tricky
Alden, getting, as usual, exactly what he wanted.
4
However, NHS reform makes it an especially
tricky
time to tackle differences.
5
Certainly, overactive autoimmune response can be a
tricky
business, among other challenges.
1
But we're very taken with these
slick
new cases from Pong Ireland.
2
In many cases, the
slick
compounded factors that already threatened the environment.
3
A
slick
Wexford side claimed victory in blustery conditions at Birr yesterday.
4
The cold was expected to last another day, keeping road surfaces
slick
.
5
The community centre building is
slick
,
marked with patches of the past.
1
She must be the
sly
one, all right, with that innocent look.
2
Like you. A
sly
look my way, as if expecting a response.
3
The
sly
approaches, the astute negotiations, the lying and the circumventing .
4
That maid said she bought it on the
sly
all the time.
5
But I will remember him for his
sly
,
cheeky sense of humour.
1
The
crafty
antagonists grapple in every cunning of the art of war.
2
But the
crafty
Menapian foresaw and prevented the severity of the emperor.
3
The
crafty
fellow made the sign of the cross and hurried home.
4
The advantage of the plan was instantly grasped by the
crafty
Apache.
5
Silent, too; the struggle was silent and insidious and
crafty
as death.
1
Even now we have no clear case against this very
wily
man.
2
In a sense Congress only replaced one
wily
political operator with another.
3
It was merely display; the
wily
Boer did not yet mean business.
4
Karl wears his heart upon his sleeve; Franz is
wily
and hypocritical.
5
The
wily
bishop set to work, and the consequences were soon visible.
1
When will banks learn that
dodgy
tax practices actually cost them dear?
2
The Free State is a flipping
dodgy
place to do business, folks.
3
However, those sweets have plenty of
dodgy
E numbers, environmental and economic.
4
The same link on the
dodgy
website doesn't offer as much help.
5
I'm happy you know your people have
dodgy
,
illegal and stole money.
1
The wolf will be always wolfish; the fox will be always
foxy
.
2
But Professor Featherwit declined, his
foxy
face wrinkling in a bashful laugh.
3
The scalp, with small exceptions is cohered with sorrel or
foxy
hair.
4
Having Miles knocked off bothered me, and then you birds cracking
foxy
.
5
He was too
foxy
to be driven back into that suspicious neighbourhood.
1
As Gollum had once said about Frodo Baggins, it was
tricksy
,
precious.
2
Her smile was the
tricksy
play of moonlight among clouds of faëry.
3
Special features are
tricksy
and precious; Sméagol steals the rest of the show.
4
Mab is a
tricksy
bitch, but she's good to her word.
5
But what could he expect from such a
tricksy
sprite of a girl?
1
The profound sagacity of Gloucester's
guileful
counsel was then unanimously recognized.
2
The people of Antioch like making a noise, and they are
guileful
flatterers.
3
So much for my
guileful
attempt to bypass his defenses.
4
Both employ guileless heroes, set loose in a
guileful
world.
5
He had been soundly schooled by his
guileful
Sicilian mother.
Uso de
knavish
em inglês
1
This might have been originally designed to prevent disputes or
knavish
impositions.
2
Mistaken they may be; but why yell them down as
knavish
blasphemers?
3
The
knavish
fanatic closed his eyes and raised his face heavenwards.
4
Surely, sir, it cannot be right to take advantage of such
knavish
tricks.
5
Neither were they filled with goods, like those of
knavish
traders.
6
Is it not a
knavish
trick to put justice in motion against me?
7
Yet how can I let this
knavish
dog die and lose the money?
8
What a pack of
knavish
bigots they must all have been!
9
You shall see anon; 'tis a
knavish
piece of work.
10
Our ships were wrecked, or captured by the
knavish
Spaniards.
11
For poor serving-men are held responsible for his
knavish
on-goings.
12
Is not that a rather
knavish
speech, dear Miss St.
13
Not to be influenced by, or give ear to,
knavish
tattling servants, or others.
14
Was not England specially prepared by an all-wise Providence to frustrate these
knavish
tricks?
15
A groan for the
knavish
extortioner, my masters- adeepgroan for Sir Giles Mompesson!
16
You were right in denouncing the management as
knavish
.
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knavish practices
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