Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

kniving

/k(ə)ˈnaɪvɪŋ/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: kniv-ing
IPA: /k(ə)ˈnaɪvɪŋ/

15

Scrabble Score

7

Letters

2

Syllables

5

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

present participle and gerund of knive

verb

Misconstruction of conniving.

adj

Misconstruction of conniving.

Example Sentences

"If I had a^([sic]) Indian in the car and also a sealed bottle of whiskey or a sealed case of beer and a cop stops me on a routine check I would be charged with kniving which has several meanings like the intention of giving him a drink sooner or later."
"When your so-called friends try to smear your name with their backstabbing and kniving games, look them straight in their eyes and say, I know who I am."
"It was enough that Frederich was a kniving back-stabber who was always working with ..."
"He did not share his Duke's kniving mind, nor lack of morals and he had a good friend aboard one of those boats back across the turbulent sea."

Etymology

Inflected form of knive.

Rhymes With

driving arriving diving thriving striving dumpster diving depriving jiving piledriving

Questions

How do you pronounce kniving?: The recorded pronunciation is /k(ə)ˈnaɪvɪŋ/.
What does kniving mean?: present participle and gerund of knive
Where does kniving come from?: Inflected form of knive.

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