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
O noble gracious English tongue Whose fibers we so sadly twist, For caitiff measures he has sung Have pardon on the journalist.
From Chimneysmoke by Christopher Morley
Still single and free? or had she yielded to maternal solicitation, and become the wife of the vile caitiff after all?
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
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 William De Witt Hyde
Once only, in the whole correspondence, are we able to find that this interloping caitiff of Cox's was fairly circumvented.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
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