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

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

"Thou art an insolent caitiff," he said, "thus to speak of one of whom thou knowest nothing."

From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Curling, Henry

Read sculptured on a grave that royal name, So often blown abroad by noisy fame: Yes; low as other men, the caitiff tomb Has dared to shroud his splendour in its gloom!

From John Patrick, Third Marquess of Bute, K.T. A Memoir by Blair, David Hunter

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