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  • 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.
News & Articles

  • Comic-Con: Naveen Andrews Joining ABC’s ‘Once Upon A Time In Wonderland’ As Jafar
    Anthony D’Alessandro contributes to Deadline’s Comic-Con coverage. UPDATED: Lost vet Naveen Andrews is boarding Once Upon A Time In Wonderland as the genie villain Jafar. That was the big news coming out of the ABC’s show’s panel today at Comic-Con. Andrews joined the Wonderland cast members Sophie Lowe (Alice), Michael Socha (Knave of Hearts), Emma Rigby (Red Queen) and Peter Gadiot (Cyrus ...
    July 20, 2013 - Deadline Hollywood
Quotes

  • Jerrold Nadler in San Diego Union Tribune
    The president "may have deliberately deceived the United States to get us into a war," Jerrold Nadler, DN.Y., said. "Was the president of the United States a fool or a knave?"
  • Harry Kewell in Bloomberg
    June 8 (Bloomberg) -- Gary Lineker, the former England soccer captain, portrayed Liverpool Football Club player Harry Kewell as "a fool and a knave" in a 2003 article for the Sunday Telegraph, lawyers for Kewell told a London Court today.
  • BR Ambedkar in DAWN.com
    As he moved the provision in the constituent assembly on June 15, 1949, Dr BR Ambedkar said "it has given me a great deal of headache" for it cannot prevent the appointment as chief election commissioner of "either a fool or a knave or a...

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