knave

[US]/neɪv/
[UK]/nev/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. pícaro, sinvergüenza; (cartas) jota
Word Forms
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Example Sentences

beware of that knave

¡cuidado con ese pícaro!

a rogue and a knave

un rufián y un pícaro

Real-world Examples

Magic mirror instruct this knave, give him the answers he doth crave!

¡Espejo mágico, instruye a este pícaro, dale las respuestas que anhela!

Source: Villains' Tea Party

It is, of course, un-American to think in terms of fools and knaves.

Es, por supuesto, no americano pensar en términos de tontos y pícaros.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 4

You know that each guard is either a knight, who always tells the truth, or a knave, who lies.

Sabes que cada guardia es o bien un caballero, que siempre dice la verdad, o un pícaro, que miente.

Source: WIL Life Revelation

Le Chiffre turned up a knave and a four.

Le Chiffre encontró un pícaro y un cuatro.

Source: Casino Royale of the 007 series

" He calls the knaves Jacks, this boy" !

"- Él llama a los pícaros Jacks, este chico"!

Source: Great Expectations (Original Version)

As saint or knave, pilgrim or hypocrite?

¿Como santo o pícaro, peregrino o hipócrita?

Source: Middlemarch (Part One)

" Where is the knave" ? bluntly interrupted the scout.

"- ¿Dónde está el pícaro?" interrumpió bruscamente el explorador.

Source: The Last of the Mohicans (Chinese)

In three days Paris will cry out: " Monsieur Grandet was a knave" !

En tres días París exclamará: "¡El señor Grandet fue un pícaro!"

Source: Eugénie Grandet

" Oh, I dare say he's more fool than knave" !

"- Oh, me atrevo a decir que es más tonto que pícaro"!

Source: The Gadfly (Original Version)

However, before you can come up with the question, Guard A calls out to you, “two of us are knaves.”

Sin embargo, antes de que puedas formular la pregunta, la Guardia A te dice: “dos de nosotros somos pícaros”.

Source: WIL Life Revelation

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