(n.) A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
(n.) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.
Example Sentences:
(1) This paper concludes with a brief summary of his personal qualities and asserts that it was these qualities, together perhaps with the discordance between the colonies, which allowed this knave to escape the penalty which he appeared amply to deserve.
(2) For example, suppose person A says, "I am a knight and B is a knight," and person B says, "A is a knave."
(3) Hislop is merely one very prominent example among many satirists and comedians, on screen, online and in print, who portray British politics as a nest of fools, knaves and incompetents.
(4) Knight-knave brain teasers are about a realm in which some people, knights, tell only truths, whereas all others, knaves, tell only lies.
(5) For the NHS as a whole we prescribe Barry Hines's A Kestrel for a Knave – its protagonist, Billy, is valiant, determined and full of promise – but grossly handicapped by an unsupportive family and a lack of funds.
Squire
Definition:
(n.) A square; a measure; a rule.
(n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
(n.) A title of dignity next in degree below knight, and above gentleman. See Esquire.
(n.) A male attendant on a great personage; also (Colloq.), a devoted attendant or follower of a lady; a beau.
(n.) A title of office and courtesy. See under Esquire.
(v. t.) To attend as a squire.
(v. t.) To attend as a beau, or gallant, for aid and protection; as, to squire a lady.
Example Sentences:
(1) Brown went on to create six albums, bassist Mani joined Primal Scream, while Squire, who created the artwork for the band's first album, formed the short-lived Seahorses before deciding to concentrate on art.
(2) Dr Sanjay Sharma, professor of cardiology at St George's hospital and the medical director of the London marathon, was on the scene when Squires collapsed.
(3) But while Hirst is an unlikely country squire, he is not alone in making such an improbable journey.
(4) • Work with advertisers to co-develop new advertising forms that Squires expects will be more immersive with the power of digital delivery.
(5) Squires is leaving Time Inc to serve as interim director while the CEO search is conducted.
(6) The one word, "Willie", came to conjure up a decent, slightly slow, endlessly courteous country squire, who liked his food and drink and got on with everyone he dealt with - no mean feat for someone educated at that supremely elitist institution, Winchester.
(7) William McKenna, a professor at the University College London hospitals trust, who reviewed Squires' medical records, said he thought the irregular heartbeat was "a red herring" and that the substance found in the blood was "an important factor in the outcome".
(8) The National Farmers Union is taking legal advice to try to get compensation for the region's farmers but regional director Melanie Squires said they were having a "torrid time" making any headway with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.
(9) Squires was the 11th participant to die since the event began 31 years ago.
(10) With the Squire-Brown friendship rekindled and Reni back on drums and backing vocals, they have a point to prove: that a Third Coming can be done with dignity, and that the once-mighty Stone Roses can be The Best Band On The Planet once again.
(11) The meaty melodies are provided by John Squire, pinning down the guitar surging from caustic feedback to ecstatic wah-wah chugging – all in the space of a song.
(12) After the inquest Van Herrewege said the finding had left Squires' family and himself "numb".
(13) Two years ago, Brown said Squire tried to end the feud by writing him a song - but he refused to record it.
(14) In a statement read out to the inquest, Squires's father, Paul, said his daughter had experienced two convulsions when she was three and five.
(15) Renowned for his wit, he could speak four languages fluently and, during the late 40s and early 50s, squired a succession of jet-setting beauties, including socialite Pamela Digby Churchill Harriman, Rita Hayworth and Anita Ekberg.
(16) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Squire Cabell’s tomb in Buckfastleigh Leaving Buckfastleigh, we drive up on to Dartmoor in a biting wind.
(17) Professor William McKenna, of the University College London hospitals trust, who reviewed Squires' medical records, said he had found "significant levels" of the amphetamine-like substance in her blood.
(18) In the general case of unequal initial links, the model derived from melioration differs from the revised model advanced by Squires and Fantino (1971) only in the factors affecting the delay-reduction terms (T - t2L) and (T - t2R).
(19) David Squires on … football's proposed trials of video replays Read more QPR have accepted Liverpool’s offer of a loan deal until the end of the season and Caulker returned to Loftus Road on Tuesday to officially cancel his terms with Southampton.
(20) Jack3d was banned in August last year, four months after Squires' death, after concerns over a stimulant called DMAA (dimethylamylamine) found in the powder.