On this page you'll find 3 example sentences with Knavish. Discover the meaning, synonyms such as crafty or wily and how to use the word correctly in a sentence.
Knavish in a sentence
Knavish meaning
Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.
Using Knavish
- The main meaning on this page is: Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent.
- Useful related words include: crafty, wily, tricky, tricksy.
- In the example corpus, knavish often appears in combinations such as: and knavish.
Context around Knavish
- Average sentence length in these examples: 31 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 2 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 3 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Knavish
- In this selection, "knavish" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 31 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, sprite, used and puck stand out and add context to how "knavish" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include frustrate their knavish used to and shrewd and knavish puck in. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "knavish" sits close to words such as aaas, aacc and aacs, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with knavish
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream may have revived flagging interest in Puck. (21 words)
O Lord our God arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish used to be popish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix: God save us all. (33 words)
He calls upon Robin " Puck " Goodfellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", citation to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called " love-in-idleness ", which turns from white to purple when struck by Cupid's arrow. (39 words)
He calls upon Robin " Puck " Goodfellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", citation to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called " love-in-idleness ", which turns from white to purple when struck by Cupid's arrow. (39 words)
O Lord our God arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish used to be popish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix: God save us all. (33 words)
Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream may have revived flagging interest in Puck. (21 words)
Example sentences (3)
He calls upon Robin " Puck " Goodfellow, his "shrewd and knavish sprite", citation to help him concoct a magical juice derived from a flower called " love-in-idleness ", which turns from white to purple when struck by Cupid's arrow.
O Lord our God arise, Scatter her enemies, And make them fall: Confound their politics, Frustrate their knavish used to be popish tricks, On Thee our hopes we fix: God save us all.
Shakespeare's characterization of "shrewd and knavish" Puck in A Midsummer Night's Dream may have revived flagging interest in Puck.
Common combinations with knavish
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: