Usually means: Cowardly, despicable person; base villain.
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  1. caitiff: Merriam-Webster
  2. caitiff: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. caitiff: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. caitiff: Collins English Dictionary
  5. caitiff: Vocabulary.com
  6. caitiff: Wordnik
  7. caitiff: Wiktionary
  8. caitiff: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. caitiff: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Caitiff, caitiff: Dictionary.com
  11. caitiff: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Caitiff: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Caitiff: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. caitiff: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. caitiff: Rhymezone
  16. caitiff: Grandiloquent Dictionary
  17. Caitiff: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. caitiff: FreeDictionary.org
  19. caitiff: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  20. caitiff: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. caitiff: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Caitiff: World Wide Words

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  1. Caitiff (World of Darkness), caitiff: Legal dictionary

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  1. caitiff: A Word A Day
  2. caitiff: Wordcraft Dictionary

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  1. Caitiff: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (caitiff)

noun:  A base or despicable person; a wretch.
noun:  (obsolete) A captive or prisoner, particularly a galley slave.
noun:  (archaic) A villain, a coward or wretch.
adjective:  Especially despicable; cowardly

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