caitiff

Example Sentences

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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

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

"Thou art an insolent caitiff," he said, "thus to speak of one of whom thou knowest nothing."

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

"Margaret, they are but a blind: Giles says so: no matter, the old caitiff shall never see them again; I will not go till I have hidden his treasure where he shall never find it."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

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

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.