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 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

She was sorry for the canaille, the Effie Mays, who had no such inner power to rely upon....

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

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.

"All canaille, but--not all like that, or we had some strange bed-fellows indeed!"

From The Abbess Of Vlaye by Weyman, Stanley J.