caitiff

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

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 William De Witt Hyde

For Newcastle had betrayed him to the last; the magpie cunning of that old caitiff paralysed every arm that might have defended him.

From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery

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 Henry Curling

"Yet," came the somewhat dubious observation, "even Arthur's table had its caitiff knights, if you remember."

From The Tempering by Charles Neville Buck