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caitiff

[kay-tif] / ˈkeɪ tɪf /
NOUN
despicable person
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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

Master Grasp," he said, "I have more than once given this caitiff host notice to quit, and he hath still hung on and craved to remain my tenant.

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

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

From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth

Ah! caitiff," said Grasp, "thou were't ever a devil to spy out a farthingale.

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

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


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