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

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

From Lady Maude's Mania by Fenn, George Manville

But they were a new thing then, and the Assembly, as much outraged as alarmed by this second trespass on its dignity, could only look at its President, and mutter wrathful threats against the canaille.

From The Red Cockade by Weyman, Stanley John

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

I would not trust them further than the canaille itself; they are a white-livered lot in spite of their gaudy uniforms.

From Robert Tournay A Romance of the French Revolution by Sage, William