What's the difference between knavish and roguish?

Knavish


Definition:

  • (a.) Like or characteristic of a knave; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.
  • (a.) Mischievous; roguish; waggish.

Example Sentences:

Roguish


Definition:

  • (a.) Vagrant.
  • (a.) Resembling, or characteristic of, a rogue; knavish.
  • (a.) Pleasantly mischievous; waggish; arch.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In a break from filming, Pratt described his character as a "roguish space dude who's socially stunted and essentially still very much a child".
  • (2) When I was 18, I was held in custody in Panama's airport (because of the Indian passport I then carried) and denied formal entry to the nation, while the roguish English friend from high school with whom I was travelling was free to enter with impunity and savour all the dubious pleasures of the Canal Zone.
  • (3) So Camilla decided to marry the roguish Andrew while Charles had to make do with Diana.
  • (4) Miami Vice (2006) Foxx reunited with Mann for a lush big-screen treatment of the 80s TV show about two roguish cops patrolling the art-deco seafront.
  • (5) A roguish and debonair art dealer, our hero has been described as an amoral Bertie Wooster with psychopathic tendencies.
  • (6) The novelist Howard Jacobson, who roguishly calls himself "the Jewish Jane Austen", certainly found it a struggle teaching Mansfield Park in 1960s Australia, worrying that decorum was just too hard a sell.
  • (7) This man-of-the-people routine is probably the aspect of McShane most prized by audiences, and it can't be a coincidence that his two signature roles have been flipsides of the same roguish persona, one charming ( Lovejoy ), the other infinitely scuzzy (Al in Deadwood).

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