Foolish vs Knave - What's the difference?
foolish | knave |
Lacking good sense or judgement; unwise.
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*:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish , but I would not go out of my way to protest against it. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I would very gladly make mine over to him if I could.
Resembling or characteristic of a fool.
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*(Aeschylus)
*:It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish .
(archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.
(archaic) Any male servant; a menial.
A tricky, deceitful fellow; a dishonest person; a rogue; a villain.
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*:I had never defrauded a man of a farthing, nor called him knave behind his back. But now the last rag that covered my nakedness had been torn from me. I was branded a blackleg, card-sharper, and murderer.
*1977 , (Geoffrey Chaucer), (The Canterbury Tales) , Penguin Classics, p. 204:
*:God's bones! Whenever I go to beat those knaves / my tapsters, out she [my wife] comes with clubs and staves, / "Go on!" she screams — and its a caterwaul — / "You kill those dogs! Break back and bones and all!"
(cards) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.