Usually means: Dishonest or unscrupulous in nature.
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  1. knavish: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. knavish: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knavish: Collins English Dictionary
  4. knavish: Vocabulary.com
  5. knavish: Wordnik
  6. knavish: Wiktionary
  7. knavish: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. knavish: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. knavish: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Knavish, knavish: Dictionary.com
  11. Knavish: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. knavish: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. knavish: Rhymezone
  14. Knavish: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. knavish: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. knavish: Free Dictionary
  17. knavish: Mnemonic Dictionary
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  1. knavish: Urban Dictionary

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adjective:  Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.

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