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

I heard the sword-play from the glen yonder, and soon knew the voice of that black caitiff.

From Cedric, the Forester by Marshall, Bernard Gay

The caitiff who had undersold them was in the village at that moment!

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

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

Alas, caitiff that I am, why did I leave the place whereto I was appointed and wherein I had come to my old age?

From Tales from the Old French by Various