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
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
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
Think not of us—think not of revenging yourself upon this caitiff.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
Say what you have to say why justice shall not be done upon you, miserable caitiff, who would have sold a man’s life for a few pieces of silver!”
From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various
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