sheep-biting

adj

adj

Obsolete Contemptible; unscrupulous; shifty; thieving.

Show your knave's visage, with a pox to you. Show your sheep-biting face, and be hanged an hour.c. 1603–1604, William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure, act 5, scene 1:
How like a sheep-biting Rogue taken i'th' manner, / And ready for the halter dost thou look now!1624, John Fletcher, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife:

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