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Meanings of knavish in английском
Synonyms
Examples for "cunning"
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.
Usage of knavish in английском
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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