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

"Thou art an insolent caitiff," he said, "thus to speak of one of whom thou knowest nothing."

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Ah! caitiff," said Grasp, "thou were't ever a devil to spy out a farthingale.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

And will any one say that he is not a miserable caitiff who sells his own divine being to that which is most godless and detestable and has no pity?

From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by Hyde, William De Witt

These thoughts and apprehensions the more forcibly impressed themselves upon his mind, as the caitiff was well aware he fully deserved as much at Sir Thomas's hands.

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry