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

O noble gracious English tongue Whose fibers we so sadly twist, For caitiff measures he has sung Have pardon on the journalist.

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher

What punishment was severe enough for such a caitiff?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis

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

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

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick