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What does knavish mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent
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Finally, we love De Quincey for his abhorrence of all knavish or quackish men, and his deep respect for human nature.
I hold them to be a race of pessimists, recruited amongst beggarly philosophers and knavish, atrabilious theologians.
They were like monkeys for their knavish and thievish tricks.
But they must have forgotten all about Mr. Crow's knavish cousin, Jasper Jay.
Politics is a noble and sometimes a knavish trade.
So ridiculously were they abused by knavish and ignorant star-gazers.

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