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
The ancient spider that sat there at the centre, would rush along the network through all longitudes and latitudes, until he found the responsible caitiff, author of so much mischief.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various
False caitiff, wouldst thou indeed betray my innocent trust?
From What a Man Wills by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey
The caitiff who had undersold them was in the village at that moment!
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
What punishment was severe enough for such a caitiff?
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
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