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

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

"Margaret, they are but a blind: Giles says so: no matter, the old caitiff shall never see them again; I will not go till I have hidden his treasure where he shall never find it."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles

You are an arrant rogue, a caitiff vile; there can be naught between us.

From The Mesa Trail by Bedford-Jones, H.

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