knavish उदाहरण वाक्य

In the play, Shakespeare introduces Puck as the " shrewd and knavish sprite " and " that merry wanderer of the night "; he is a jester to Oberon, the fairy king.
Of Anne's own recognition of the specifically Jewish nature of her plight, Kanin wrote, in a statement that now seems knavish and stupid, that it " reduces her magnificent stature ."
LONDON ( AP ) _ James Hewitt, reviled as a cad for spilling details of his affair with Princess Diana, was just as knavish when he got in a traffic accident, a woman injured in the wreck says.
With these memories foremost on my mind, I went to see " Titanic " again not as a snarly critic but as a pubescent girl, infatuated with the movies and the knavish charm of Hollywood's legendary leading man.
There are some knavish quacks, and some silly doctors, who say the cure is not impossible, and that he may be restored to his senses . . . By what I can learn, he leads a happy kind of animal life.

Exiled from London to gritty Manchester after resisting her knavish bosses ( she threw a glass of wine in the face of one in the final scene of of " PS " 4 ), Jane is at once harder and more vulnerable than ever.
During the last year of the war Dyer demanded, and got, a court of inquiry that cleared him of any wrongdoing or harmful partisanship he was accused of by a long row of " charlatan inventors and knavish contractors " including former colonel Hiram Berdan.
The overuse of the phrase by an eager member of the House of Commons led Richard Brinsley Sheridan, in one speech, to deviate from his planned text and say " Where, oh where, shall we find a more foolish knave or a more knavish fool than this ? ".
Scholarly re-evaluations have been published, to the effect that McCarthy was a misunderstood hero of the resistance to communism and the Soviet Union, fatally maligned for a wee misstep here or there by foolish and knavish liberals either indifferent to the horrors of Stalinism or contemptuous of their own country.
If you had the knack, Puck might do minor housework for you, quick fine needlework or butter-churning, which could be undone in a moment by his knavish tricks if you fell out of favour with him He may also do work for you if you leave him small gifts, such as a glass of milk or other such treats, otherwise he may do the opposite by " make [ ing ] the drink [ beer ] to bear no barm " and other such fiendish acts.