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

What the deuce do you take me for, a caitiff?

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

He will regenerate the race; he will ennoble humanity, without sparing one caitiff of them all; he will establish it on some perpetual mount of transfiguration; and all by the magic of stage effect.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 95, September 1865 by Various

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

"Yet," came the somewhat dubious observation, "even Arthur's table had its caitiff knights, if you remember."

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville