Knave in a sentence as a noun

Don't blame this on poor, sweet Livingston you knave!

One of them is a knight and the other a knave, but you don't know which.

You could lay that down for a ruleā€”if you met a man who was rising in Packingtown, you met a knave.

Remember that Chaucer wrote in the 1300s, when, for example, the word "knave" meant, simply, "young boy." A lot has changed since then.

Forsooth knave, thou dost not graspeth that ye Englyshe language doth ever evolve over yon ages.

"Edit: And to whoever downvoted this man, I officially call you a knave.

"A right knave's prayer, but then Augustine was a right knave until his saintly mother finally set him straight.

Looks interesting, but I think if you trust non-open source encryption, you are basically a knave.

It's a perfectly good hypothesis that calling a petty tyrant a knave, poltroon or ******* could deflate them.

My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theatre business, management of men. I swear before the dawn comes round again I'll find the stable and pull out the bolt.

Wycliffe's "knave", or "young boy" as it meant to him in the 14th century, is today a far more sinister character than originally meant.

Parents have always taken sick days to care for kids, or show up late to attend parent teacher conferences, or knave early to go to soccer games or school plays.

"I could care less" is either meant to be taken sarcastically, or it came to be because the "dn't c" consonant cluster is hard to pronounce, the same reason you don't pronounce the 'l' in could, the 'k' in knee, knight or knave, the 'p' in psychologist or pneumonia, or half the letters in Wednesday.

Knave definitions

noun

a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

See also: rogue rascal rapscallion scalawag scallywag varlet

noun

one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince

See also: jack