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 ancient spider that sat there at the centre, would rush along the network through all longitudes and latitudes, until he found the responsible caitiff, author of so much mischief.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 354, April 1845 by Various

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

From The Tempering by Buck, Charles Neville

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

From The Barber of Paris by Kock, Charles Paul de

What punishment was severe enough for such a caitiff?

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis