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
This caitiff had the charge of the fair one whom I worshipped, and for whom I was dying of grief.
From The Book of the Duke of True Lovers by Christin? de Pisan
Still single and free? or had she yielded to maternal solicitation, and become the wife of the vile caitiff after all?
From Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land by Mayne Reid
Master Grasp," he said, "I have more than once given this caitiff host notice to quit, and he hath still hung on and craved to remain my tenant.
From William Shakespeare as he lived. An Historical Tale by Henry Curling
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