Synonyms for knave
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1. knave

   Synonyms:
   hogue, cheat, rascal, villain, miscreant, scoundrel

   Antonyms:
   true-penny, gentleman, innocent, dupe, simpleton, gull, oaf

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1. rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varletnoun

   a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel

   Synonyms:
   rapscallion, jack, scamp, monkey, scallywag, imp, rascal, rogue, page, varlet, scalawag

2. jack, knavenoun

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

   Synonyms:
   seafarer, jack, diddlysquat, scallywag, jackfruit, gob, shit, doodly-squat, old salt, tar, rogue, diddly-shit, mariner, laborer, diddley, labourer, sea dog, jak, jackass, rascal, rapscallion, jackstones, scalawag, diddlyshit, manual laborer, diddly-squat, varlet, seaman, squat, diddly

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1. • Face Card
   • Villain

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1. knavenoun

   Synonyms:
   villain, rascal, scoundrel, rogue, cheat, caitiff, swindler, sharper, trickster, scamp, scapegrace, SCALAWAG

2. knavenoun

   Synonyms:
   jack (of cards)

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1. knavenoun

   Synonyms:
   villain, rascal, scamp, scoundrel

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1. John Dryden, The Medal, 1682:

   None are so busy as the fool and knave.

2. Hindu Poetess:

   Mark this! who lives beyond his means Forfeits respect, loses his sense; Where?er he goes, through the seven births, All count him knave: him women hate.

3. Alexander Hamilton, P. 217 - A History of the American People by P. Johnson:

   Every man ought to be supposed a knave, and to have no other end, in all his actions, but private interest. By this interest we must govern him, and by means of it, make him cooperate to public good, notwithstanding his unsatiable avarice and ambition.

4. Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield:

   The heart never grows better by age I fear rather worse always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

5. C. C. Colton:

   Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of trick and duplicity than straigthforward and simple integrity in another. A knave would rather quarrel with a brother knave than with a fool, but he would rather avoid a quarrel with one honest man than with both. He can combat a fool by management and address, and he can conquer a knave by temptations. But the honest man is neither to be bamboozled nor bribed.