knave
nayv
- n a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
- n one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
- After such an event, anyone persisting in maintaining Simpson's innocence would have been exposed as a fool or a knave.
- Their parents, Bill and Wanda Grimes, weren't thrilled when Billie's smack-the-knave impulses propelled her into the Army.
- And, like Erin Brockovich, it tries to establish the Julia Roberts character as a saint by painting everyone else as a knave, a fool or a weakling.