caitiff
Example Sentences
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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
Think not of us—think not of revenging yourself upon this caitiff.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
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
Alas, caitiff that I am, why did I leave the place whereto I was appointed and wherein I had come to my old age?
From Tales from the Old French by Various
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