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
Thereupon the villein, the caitiff, the felon, climbeth up and taketh the bird.
From Tales from the Old French 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
What the deuce do you take me for, a caitiff?
From The Barber of Paris by Charles Paul de Kock
For Newcastle had betrayed him to the last; the magpie cunning of that old caitiff paralysed every arm that might have defended him.
From Lord Chatham His Early Life and Connections by Archibald Phillip Primrose Rosebery
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