Sheep-biting

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving. not-comparable, obsolete

    "Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour."

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"Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour."

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