cai·tiff /ˈketəf/
 (a.)卑劣的卑鄙男人


 Cai·tiff a.
 1. Captive; wretched; unfortunate. [Obs.]
 2. Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable.
    Arnold had sped his caitiff flight.   --W. Irving.


 Cai·tiff, n. A captive; a prisoner. [Obs.]
    Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave.   --Holland.
 2. A wretched or unfortunate man. [Obs.]
 3. A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet.
 Note: The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it.

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 caitiff
      adj : despicably mean and cowardly
      n : a cowardly and despicable person