(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.
Swain
Definition:
(n.) A servant.
(n.) A young man dwelling in the country; a rustic; esp., a cuntry gallant or lover; -- chiefly in poetry.
Example Sentences:
(1) Val Swain, spokesperson for Netpol, a police monitoring group, said: "The Saturday protest is certainly an event that people are traveling to.
(2) In the future, says Kalixa’s Colin Swain, even window cleaners and other small trades people will be able to accept cards.
(3) Photograph: Jon Swaine for the Guardian However, the shop was then looted during Monday’s unrest, said the shop owner, who is Korean and speaks little English.
(4) Taking a value of the Swain-Scott nucleophilicity (n) of 2.5 for an average DNA nucleotide unit [Walles & Ehrenberg (1969) Acta Chem.
(5) There is no correlation between the Swain-Scott factors of monofunctional alkylants and their ability to induce chromosomal damage when compared in terms of pharmacological doses.
(6) The physical risk to Wesley himself is obvious and outrageous.” Earlier, the Guardian’s Jon Swaine posted pictures and video of heavily armed police pushing protesters back down the streets, and an image he believed to be of the two reporters being arrested.
(7) Updated at 1.27am BST 10.02pm BST US vice-president Joe Biden says MH17 was "blown out of the sky" , as the Guardian's Jon Swaine quotes him in full comments from his speech in Detroit.
(8) Nigel Swain University of Liverpool I just don’t recognise Viktor Orbán as a ‘tyrant’ | Tibor Fischer Read more • As a keen reader of his novels, I was disappointed with Tibor Fischer’s article.
(9) The Swains, with their tiny toilet, which empties into a leach pit – a hole in the ground used to compost faeces when there is no sewage system – are the face of progress.
(10) The nucleophilic selectivity (Swain-Scott's constant s) of chloroethylene oxide (CEO), an ultimate carcinogenic metabolite of vinyl chloride, was determined to be 0.71 using the 4-(p-nitrobenzyl)pyridine (NBP) assay (Spears method).
(11) In two examples which indicate how execution lengths have varied widely since the move to single-drug, 33-year-old Mario Swain was put to death on 8 November , 2012, for the murder of a woman a decade earlier.
(12) Entwistle's elevation creates another vacancy at the top of the corporation, with BBC1 controller Danny Cohen, another former Newsnight editor Peter Barron, who quit to join Google and Entwistle's number two Emma Swain, among the contenders to succeed him as head of BBC Vision.
(13) Val Swain, 44, another Fitwatch campaigner, said the post had been been a direct response to what she called the Telegraph's "rogues' gallery" and was never intended to divulge information that was not already "well known".
(14) On the basis of Orem's self-care framework, subjects' levels of knowledge in six criterion areas were assessed according to measurement criteria developed by Horn and Swain.
(15) Some examples of E lacking Knops, McCoy, Swain-Langley, and York antigens, a serologically related group, were not agglutinated.
(16) The presence of either excision-defective mutant can enhance the frequency of mutation (hypermutability) and this hypermutability can be correlated with the Swain-Scott constant S of specific AAs such that as the SN1 character of the DNA alkylation reaction increases, the difference in response between repair-deficient and repair-proficient females decreases.
(17) Their swains will arrive in white vests and ill-fitting suit trousers held up by braces.
(18) In the case of monofunctional agents, ENNG, ENU, DES and EMS there was a relationship between the induction of chromosome aberrations with the Swain-Scott S-value and O-alkylation with those agents with the lowest S-value and the highest proportion of O-alkylation producing chromosome aberrations at the lowest exposure concentrations.
(19) Two conceptual nursing models, Roy's adaptation model and Erickson and Swain's adaptive potential assessment model are explained, and knowledge is identified within these two assessment techniques for adaptation to stress.
(20) Some BBC insiders believe that Entwistle's No 2, Swain, is the most natural candidate to take over.