caitiff

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If a celebrated classroom caitiff like Peck's Bad Boy or Huckleberry Finn were to cut his swath through a U. S. school today, he would probably get off with a restrained scolding.

From Time Magazine Archive

I heard the sword-play from the glen yonder, and soon knew the voice of that black caitiff.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

The ancient spider that sat there at the centre, would rush along the network through all longitudes and latitudes, until he found the responsible caitiff, author of so much mischief.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

"Yet," came the somewhat dubious observation, "even Arthur's table had its caitiff knights, if you remember."

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable and has no pity?

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt