🔄 Synonyms of "Knavish"
11 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.
| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| cunningnoun | Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. |
| artful | Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious. |
| guileful | Full of guile; treacherously deceptive. |
| wily | Sly, cunning, full of tricks. |
| slynoun | Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. |
| slicknoun | Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances. |
| tricky | Hard to deal with, complicated. |
| dodgy | (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Unsound and unreliable. |
| foxynoun | (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman). |
| crafty | Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. |
| tricksy | Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Knavish"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| tricksynoun | Inclined to trickery; sneaky, devious. |
| wily | Sly, cunning, full of tricks. |
| dodgy | (UK, Ireland, Commonwealth) Unsound and unreliable. |
| sly | Artfully cunning; secretly mischievous; wily. |
| guileful | Full of guile; treacherously deceptive. |
| cunning | Sly; crafty; clever in surreptitious behaviour. |
| artful | Characterized by, or performed with, cleverness or contrivance; clever, ingenious. |
| tricky | Hard to deal with, complicated. |
| crafty | Relating to, or characterized by, craft or skill; dexterous. |
| slick | Slippery or smooth due to a covering of liquid; often used to describe appearances. |
| foxy | (informal) Attractive, sexy (of a woman). |
| roguish | (idiomatic) Mischievous and playful. |
| scampish | Resembling a scamp; knavish. |
| prankishnoun | Given to or characterized by impishness or playfulness; mischievous. |
| waggish | witty, jocular, like a wag |
| rascally | Like a rascal. |
| tricksome | Characterised by tricks or trickery; cunning, tricksy. |
| rapscallionly | Like a rapscallion; roguish. |
| knackish | (obsolete) Trickish; artful. |
| quirkish | (archaic) Characterized by quirks; evasive, tricky. |
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