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

She was sorry for the canaille, the Effie Mays, who had no such inner power to rely upon....

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

"And am I to see my father's name insulted, and his house dishonored by such a canaille crew as this?"

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James

But to think of her partaking of hospitality—all alone, too—with the canaille of Wynford!”

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

You canaille you, vis your silly talk about ze organiste.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville