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

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

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

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 Hyde, William De Witt

Thereupon the villein, the caitiff, the felon, climbeth up and taketh the bird.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

“Our friendship has ceased for ever,” muttered the burly caitiff betwixt his closed teeth as he descended the ladder—“for through your means the king hath become wroth with his servant.”

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis