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

To be reserved and caitiff in goodness is the sordidest piece of covetousness, and more contemptible than pecuniary Avarice.

From The Doctor in History, Literature, Folk-Lore, Etc. by Various

False caitiff, wouldst thou indeed betray my innocent trust?

From What a Man Wills by Vaizey, George de Horne, Mrs.

Still single and free? or had she yielded to maternal solicitation, and become the wife of the vile caitiff after all?

From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Reid, Mayne

The Commander-in-chief of the Body-Guard was spokesman on behalf of the caitiff.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by Harris, William Cornwallis