canaille

Example Sentences

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He knew nothing of that silent middle class that struggled between genteel poverty and the impossible desire of emulating the golden canaille to which he himself belonged.

From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende

I have broken with 'the gentlemen' to cast my lot with the canaille.

From The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. I (of II) by Lever, Charles James

The canaille that had crouched for a century seemed in some unaccountable way to be changing its posture!

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

But to think of her partaking of hospitality—all alone, too—with the canaille of Wynford!”

From A Very Naughty Girl by Meade, L. T.

"And am I to see my father's name insulted, and his house dishonored by such a canaille crew as this?"

From That Boy Of Norcott's by Lever, Charles James