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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (1)

1. marked by skill in deception;
- Example: "cunning men often pass for wise"
- Example: "deep political machinations"
- Example: "a foxy scheme"
- Example: "a slick evasive answer"
- Example: "sly as a fox"
- Example: "tricky Dick"
- Example: "a wily old attorney"
[syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy, foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy, tricky, wily]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Knavish \Knav"ish\, a.
   1. Like or characteristic of a knave[3]; given to knavery;
      trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish
      fellow, or a knavish trick. "Knavish politicians."
      --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Mischievous; roguish; waggish; rascally.
      [1913 Webster]

            Cupid is knavish lad,
            Thus to make poor females mad.        --Shak.
      [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

knavish
    adj 1: marked by skill in deception; "cunning men often pass for
           wise"; "deep political machinations"; "a foxy scheme"; "a
           slick evasive answer"; "sly as a fox"; "tricky Dick"; "a
           wily old attorney" [syn: crafty, cunning, dodgy,
           foxy, guileful, knavish, slick, sly, tricksy,
           tricky, wily]