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

His sword to draw he essayeth, And smite the caitiff dead; But as the music playeth, His strength is from him fled.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

Then to the green wood, caitiff, haste away: There take your chance to live—for Truth must say, We have no right, for theft, to hang up Tray.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

The Commander-in-chief of the Body-Guard was spokesman on behalf of the caitiff.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

You are an arrant rogue, a caitiff vile; there can be naught between us.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.