Synonyms:
jack, knave
Meaning: one of four face cards in a deck bearing a picture of a young prince
Synonyms:
rogue, knave, rascal, rapscallion, scalawag, scallywag, varlet
Meaning: a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Usage examples
Intelligence is a knave, but stupidity is honest and straightforward.
Morgan was, moreover, a cheerful scoundrel, and experience taught me long ago that a knave with humor is doubly dangerous.
It is hard to tell, whether you hurt a man's character most by calling him a knave or a coward, and whether a beastly glutton or drunkard be not as odious and contemptible, as a selfish, ungenerous miser.
If it had not been a characteristic of Levin's to put the most favorable interpretation on people, Sviazhsky's character would have presented no doubt or difficulty to him: he would have said to himself, "a fool or a knave," and everything would have seemed clear.