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tending to or exhibiting reckless playfulness
- a knavish bunch of urchins racing pell-mell through the marketplace
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“Knavish.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/knavish. Accessed 16 Oct. 2021.
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The first known use of knavish was in the 15th century
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