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

What the deuce do you take me for, a caitiff?

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

His sword to draw he essayeth, And smite the caitiff dead; But as the music playeth, His strength is from him fled.

From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Carlyle, Thomas

Still single and free? or had she yielded to maternal solicitation, and become the wife of the vile caitiff after all?

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

Master Grasp," he said, "I have more than once given this caitiff host notice to quit, and he hath still hung on and craved to remain my tenant.

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