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

She was sorry for the canaille, the Effie Mays, who had no such inner power to rely upon....

From Why Joan? by Kelly, Eleanor Mercein

I think you have hit on the very answer to your question; not but what men of high birth were as mad as the canaille.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 by

You canaille you, vis your silly talk about ze organiste.

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

I am not so fastidious as Dr. Grey, and one who sprang from canaille must be pardoned if she betrays a longing for the ‘flesh-pots of Egypt.’

From Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part by Wilson, Augusta J. Evans