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
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.
The canaille have taken to parade the streets, singing and shouting their odious songs, and Jocasse has suffered much from the disturbance.
From Sir Jasper Carew His Life and Experience by Lever, Charles James
But they were a new thing then, and the Assembly, as much outraged as alarmed by this second trespass on its dignity, could only look at its President, and mutter wrathful threats against the canaille.
From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John
By reason of the riot, however, this teacher's, family had again become conspicuous; the pitiful canaille having allowed themselves to be soothed by an old woman.
From Villa Eden: The Country-House on the Rhine by Auerbach, Berthold
