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
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
What the deuce do you take me for, a caitiff?
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
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 Philip Freneau
The Commander-in-chief of the Body-Guard was spokesman on behalf of the caitiff.
From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris
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