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

Master Grasp," he said, "I have more than once given this caitiff host notice to quit, and he hath still hung on and craved to remain my tenant.

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

In the tumult of his passion and fear Wade cursed the caitiff, his own legs in the swirl of the bights, his cant-dog nipping the rope to the post and checking it short.

From King Spruce, A Novel by Day, Holman

Say what you have to say why justice shall not be done upon you, miserable caitiff, who would have sold a man’s life for a few pieces of silver!”

From McClure's Magazine, Vol. 1, No. 2, July, 1893 by Various

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