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
Once only, in the whole correspondence, are we able to find that this interloping caitiff of Cox's was fairly circumvented.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various
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
I heard the sword-play from the glen yonder, and soon knew the voice of that black caitiff.
From Cedric, the Forester by Bernard Gay Marshall
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