Knavish vs. Rogue — What's the Difference?

An unprincipled, crafty fellow.

A dishonest or unprincipled man

A male servant.

An elephant or other large wild animal living apart from the herd and having savage or destructive tendencies

A man of humble birth.

Remove inferior or defective plants or seedlings from (a crop)

(Games) See jack.

An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.

Having the characteristics of a knave; mischievous, roguish, waggish, rascally or impertinent

One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.

Like or characteristic of a knave{3}; given to knavery; trickish; fraudulent; dishonest; villainous; as, a knavish fellow, or a knavish trick.

A wandering beggar; a vagrant.

Mischievous; roguish; waggish; rascally.

A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.

Marked by skill in deception;

An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.

Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable

Operating outside normal or desirable controls

To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

A scoundrel, rascal or unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person.

A mischievous scamp.

A vagrant.

(computing) Deceitful software pretending to be anti-spyware, but in fact being malicious software itself.

An aggressive animal separate from the herd, especially an elephant.

A plant that shows some undesirable variation.

(role-playing games) A character class focusing on stealthy conduct.

(of an animal, especially an elephant) Vicious and solitary.

(by extension) Large, destructive and unpredictable.

(by extension) Deceitful, unprincipled.

Mischievous, unpredictable.

(horticulture) To cull; to destroy plants not meeting a required standard, especially when saving seed, rogue or unwanted plants are removed before pollination.

To cheat.

(obsolete) To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

A vagrant; an idle, sturdy beggar; a vagabond; a tramp.

A deliberately dishonest person; a knave; a cheat.

One who is pleasantly mischievous or frolicsome; hence, often used as a term of endearment.

An elephant that has separated from a herd and roams about alone, in which state it is very savage.

A worthless plant occuring among seedlings of some choice variety.

To wander; to play the vagabond; to play knavish tricks.

To give the name or designation of rogue to; to decry.

To destroy (plants that do not come up to a required standard).

A deceitful and unreliable scoundrel