caitiff
Americannoun
adjective
noun
adjective
Etymology
Origin of caitiff
1250–1300; Middle English caitif < Anglo-French < Latin captīvus captive
Vocabulary lists containing caitiff
Example Sentences
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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
Alas, caitiff that I am, why did I leave the place whereto I was appointed and wherein I had come to my old age?
From Tales from the Old French by Various
Think not of us—think not of revenging yourself upon this caitiff.
From Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason by William Harrison Ainsworth
Thereupon the villein, the caitiff, the felon, climbeth up and taketh the bird.
From Tales from the Old French by Various
You are an arrant rogue, a caitiff vile; there can be naught between us.
From The Mesa Trail by H. Bedford-Jones
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