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 caitiff who had undersold them was in the village at that moment!

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

Then to the green wood, caitiff, haste away: There take your chance to live—for Truth must say, We have no right, for theft, to hang up Tray.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip

"Yield thee, caitiff," cried Sir Thomas, flinging himself upon the foremost, and seizing him by the collar of his doublet with an iron grip, before he could strike a blow.

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

O noble gracious English tongue Whose fibers we so sadly twist, For caitiff measures he has sung Have pardon on the journalist.

From Chimneysmoke by Morley, Christopher