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

What punishment was severe enough for such a caitiff?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

Think not of us—think not of revenging yourself upon this caitiff.

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by Ainsworth, William Harrison

What the deuce do you take me for, a caitiff?

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

Thereupon the villein, the caitiff, the felon, climbeth up and taketh the bird.

From Tales from the Old French by Various