Caitiff
a base, despicable person.
base; despicable.
Historical Examples
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 107, October 6, 1894 Various
A Simpleton Charles Reade
Legends & Romances of Spain Lewis Spence
The White Company Arthur Conan Doyle
The Cloister and the Hearth Charles Reade
The Woodlands Orchids Frederick Boyle
The Red True Story Book Various
Saint George for England G. A. Henty
The Nibelungenlied Unknown
What Gunpowder Plot Was Samuel Rawson Gardiner
noun
a cowardly or base person
adjective
cowardly; base
adj.
n.
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