canaille
Example Sentences
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He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
"I didn't know that honest men were canaille," retorted Elina, flushing with anger; "I thought no one was ever called by that name but villains and rascals."
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Charles Paul de Kock
You canaille you, vis your silly talk about ze organiste.
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
The canaille that had crouched for a century seemed in some unaccountable way to be changing its posture!
From The Red Cockade by Stanley John Weyman
Count you the fork and spoons, Mr Robbins, and see that these canaille music men come not down the air—ree.
From Lady Maude's Mania by George Manville Fenn
