knave

I like to think I'm pretty literate, and I have always known this is a word for a bad guy.


Watching an ancient (1939) Sherlock Holmes movie starring Basil Rathbone, he used the word to describe his mortal enemy, Moriarty.


In order to be precise, I looked it up in my iPhone Mirriam-Webster app, and their definition was "a tricky deceitful person" - in other words, a bad guy.


Whoo, sometimes I impress even myself.