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

The Commander-in-chief of the Body-Guard was spokesman on behalf of the caitiff.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis

He may be far from despising him; he may recognize his power and skill, but to be afraid of him would be the mark of the caitiff.

From The Warfare of the Soul Practical Studies in the Life of Temptation by Hughson, Shirley C.

Once only, in the whole correspondence, are we able to find that this interloping caitiff of Cox's was fairly circumvented.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 68, June, 1863 by Various

This caitiff had the charge of the fair one whom I worshipped, and for whom I was dying of grief.

From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Pisan, Christin? de