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"Then I wash my hands of it all," cried the little self-deceiving caitiff; and he affected to have nothing to do with it.
IT IS NEVER TOO LATE TO MENDCHARLES READE"The misproud and amphibious caitiff puts the monk upon me," said Richard to the Earl of Salisbury.
THE TALISMANSIR WALTER SCOTTThe tyrant came to him, and with the poor caitiff's own whinger first struck him in the breast, and afterwards cast it at him.
THE HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF RELIGION IN SCOTLANDJOHN KNOXAlas that ever such a caitiff-knight as I am should have power by unhappiness to hurt the most noblest knight of the world.
LE MORTE D'ARTHUR, VOLUME II (OF II)THOMAS MALORYThe caitiff yields quickest; the man who loves danger and adventure holds out longest.
DAMN!HENRY LOUIS MENCKENThe constable has sworn that the caitiff had pea-green hair.
PUNCH, OR THE LONDON CHARIVARI, VOLUME 107, OCTOBER 6, 1894VARIOUSThink not of us—think not of revenging yourself upon this caitiff.
GUY FAWKESWILLIAM HARRISON AINSWORTHThereupon the villein, the caitiff, the felon, climbeth up and taketh the bird.
TALES FROM THE OLD FRENCHVARIOUSCaitiff, proceed to thy duty; and remember, that if my hand can no longer clasp a dagger, I can command an hundred.
THE FAIR MAID OF PERTHSIR WALTER SCOTTHere, some of you, toss this caitiff into the horse trough; that for once in his life he may be washed clean.
THE FAIR MAID OF PERTHSIR WALTER SCOTTWORDS RELATED TO CAITIFF
- alarmist
- baby
- caitiff
- chicken
- chicken heart
- chicken liver
- craven
- cur
- dastard
- deserter
- faint-of-heart
- faintheart
- fraidy-cat
- funk
- gutless
- invertebrate
- jellyfish
- lily liver
- malingerer
- mouse
- pessimist
- poltroon
- quitter
- rabbit
- recreant
- scaredy cat
- shirk
- shirker
- skulker
- sneak
- weakling
- white liver
- wimp
- yellow
- yellow belly
- afraid
- anxious
- apprehensive
- backward
- base
- caitiff
- chicken-hearted
- cowering
- cowhearted
- craven
- dastardly
- diffident
- dismayed
- fainthearted
- frightened
- gutless
- having the willies
- jittery
- lacking courage
- lily-livered
- nervous
- no guts
- panicky
- paper tiger
- pigeonhearted
- pusillanimous
- recreant
- retiring
- running scared
- scared
- shrinking
- shy
- soft
- spineless
- timid
- timorous
- weak
- weak-kneed
- worthless
- yellow
- yellow-bellied
- abominable
- atrocious
- base
- caitiff
- contemptible
- corrupt
- degenerate
- despicable
- detestable
- disgraceful
- dishonorable
- disreputable
- egregious
- evil
- flagitious
- foul
- hateful
- heinous
- ignominious
- ill-famed
- iniquitous
- loathsome
- miscreant
- monstrous
- nefarious
- notorious
- odious
- offensive
- opprobrious
- outrageous
- perverse
- questionable
- rotten
- scandalous
- scurvy
- shady
- shocking
- sorry
- unhealthy
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.