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waif

noun as in lost or unclaimed person or thing

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And with all this talk of hanging, how could she dream of accusing a poor waif of a child, who likely had no one to teach him right from wrong to begin with?

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Fox imagines his girls as Balthusian waifs, attracting him with a distracted air of seduction.

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America crumbles and she takes to the road, collecting waifs and strays and founding a utopian community in rural Oregon.

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The trial heard him described as a "ruffian" and a "street waif" who never stood still.

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“She was not just a little waif blowing in the wind,” Judge Jackson said.

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