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

He was, indeed, without question, the most selfish little caitiff that ever drove a quill upon parchment.

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

For Newcastle had betrayed him to the last; the magpie cunning of that old caitiff paralysed every arm that might have defended him.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Rosebery, Archibald Phillip Primrose

The ancient spider that sat there at the centre, would rush along the network through all longitudes and latitudes, until he found the responsible caitiff, author of so much mischief.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

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 Curling, Henry