canaille
Example Sentences
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He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
One of the canaille, a jailer, was put on the witness stand and questioned briefly.
From In the Day of Adversity by John Bloundelle-Burton
But they were a new thing then, and the Assembly, as much outraged as alarmed by this second trespass on its dignity, could only look at its President, and mutter wrathful threats against the canaille.
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
You canaille you, vis your silly talk about ze organiste.
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
Equally canaille, the preliminary occupations of these grisettes differed only in taste.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
