cur

Not exactly, except that I heard my stepfather denounce the doctor as an infernal cur and blackguard.

He never resented alleged satire—perhaps he couldn't see it—and therefore he got the name of being a cur.

Within this deep shadow, Virtue is slaughtered and Genius treated like an unwelcome cur.

"I guess that's the best rabbit dog anywhere around here," he said, as a flea-bitten cur trotted past.