knavish old-fashioned

And you know the knavish system of the scientific world.

There was something quite knavish in the man's attitude.

In her unsentimental way she loved children, though no one was better aware of their knavish tricks.

He smiles now, toothy and knavish, reaching for a match.

Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad.

He's a Scheming, knavish old sailor, who naturally wants to sail.

'I daresay this knavish lot will be in power for a long time yet.

After a few months, despite our best efforts, he went bankrupt and his knavish contractors were awarded all he had.

A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear.

"I am glad of it," says Hamlet, "a knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."

'Tis a knavish piece of work; but what o' that?

For, with all his knavish tricks, his hand was in all manner of dyes.

From the first, he professed a devotion to democracy and a loathing for the nation's ample supply of knavish politicians.

Puck, that "shrewd and knavish sprite," will be played by two actors in separate performances.

Only those lacking in confidence in their own case or with a knavish design to thwart public opinion run away from letting the people decide.

By all accounts, Videssians were knavish and thieving by nature.

"At least there is a rogue the less in the world, although he was a brave one in his own knavish fashion," answered Godwin.

By your knavish trick, I was taken; I therefore ensured that you should not escape."

Their herald is a pretty knavish page, That well by heart hath conn'd his embassage.

They put us through a nasty business with some nerve gas that should have been painful, but we frustrated that knavish trick pretty well.'

And you have four Roman army officers to advise you, several of whom, I'm afraid, are rather on the knavish side.'

Frustrate his knavish tricks!

Here it is -the foolish, knavish priest enters.'