caitiff

Example Sentences

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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

"Margaret, they are but a blind: Giles says so: no matter, the old caitiff shall never see them again; I will not go till I have hidden his treasure where he shall never find it."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

In the tumult of his passion and fear Wade cursed the caitiff, his own legs in the swirl of the bights, his cant-dog nipping the rope to the post and checking it short.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

False caitiff, wouldst thou indeed betray my innocent trust?

From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

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