English edit

Etymology edit

knavish +‎ -ly

Adverb edit

knavishly (comparative more knavishly, superlative most knavishly)

  1. In a knavish manner.
    • 2008 March 6, Nate Chinen, “A Night of ‘Warpaint,’ a New Set of Crowes”, in New York Times[1]:
      Then he played hard to get, knavishly sidestepping the microphone.