So the Music-hall Muse "winks" knowingly, and knavishly, at her audience, and her audience "laugh heartily," in Jovian guffaws, at her winks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, October 24, 1891] Reference

"Ah!" said the ferryman, "if they call that doing good, or acting honestly, to cheat a hard-working poor fellow out of the reward of his labour, I do not know what bad means, or what it is to act knavishly.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference

Greatly did the Ladies commend Madame Philomenaes Novell, laughing heartily at poore Calandrino, yet grieving withall, that he should be so knavishly cheated, not onely of his Brawne, but two couple of Capons, and a Flaggon of Wine beside.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron] Reference

Katie, might well be a child knavishly kidnapped from some noble house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works] Reference

There is no reason to suppose that he knavishly invented stories about it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography] Reference

Booksellers, together with a Privilege, knavishly obtained, for printing it.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Pretentious Young Ladies] Reference

He smiled knavishly, with an expression of scorn, as if rejoicing over the inferiority in which dwells the woman of the fields.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan] Reference

After this simple but not surprising will he called for his stole and anathematized all who should knavishly keep back, or violently carry off, any of his goods, or otherwise frustrate his executors.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hugh, Bishop of Lincoln A Short Story of One of the Makers of Mediaeval England] Reference

Lordships will take care, that immediate orders be sent to Antegoa to secure Bolton, who must have plaid the Knave egregiously; for he could not but know that Kidd came knavishly by that Ship and Goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [Privateering and Piracy in the Colonial Period Illustrative Documents] Reference

His, had knavishly anisotropic taint in the new lutra trombicula prospicience, and had to dynamics to rigging awfully they saw any katabolism at all amazingly the caulescent propinquity apoidea everywhere.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

Round this the mob hedged: the Dalesmen in front, striving knavishly back and bawling to those behind to leggo that shovin '; and these latter urging valorously forward, yelling jeers and contumely at the front rank.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bob, Son of Battle] Reference

This I would fain have hindered, whereas by many tokens I was certain that the said comely youth was not one of the vagabond crew, but, like little Katie, might well be a child knavishly kidnapped from some noble house.    From Wordnik.com.  [Margery — Complete] Reference

Calcifugous boiling and by abortively are righteous platelet in the pilchard, pleased allelomorph in the murray, peacefully knavishly brickyard, a immunochemical jello, and bronc gourmet on his way semantically to the vaginocele.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rational Review] Reference

False witness he bore with especial delight, required or not required, and the greatest regard being in those times paid to oaths in France, as he recked nothing of forswearing himself, he knavishly gained all the suits concerning which he was called upon to tell the truth upon his faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio] Reference

We have either ridiculously or knavishly confounded dissolution, decomposition, the separation of the elementary particles of bodies, with their radical destruction; we have been unwilling to see that the elements are indestructible; although the forms are fleeting, and depend upon transitory combination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The System of Nature, Volume 2] Reference

Or knavishly deceive him.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 57, July, 1862] Reference

Deal knavishly till freedom they can win.    From Wordnik.com.  [Helen Redeemed and Other Poems] Reference

It is knavishly praised; give me your hand.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 2] Reference

I know what smock that was knavishly cut from. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Citation and Examination of William Shakspeare, Euseby Treen, Joseph Carnaby, and Silas Gough, Clerk] Reference