Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Same as canaille, 3.

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Examples

  • I had a letter from him this morning condemning me in the rudest terms for our triumph over the Filippeschi canaglia yesterday in the Piazza San Giovenale.

    The Saracen: The Holy War Robert Shea 1963

  • "They are canaglia," said Pasqualino, with the profound contempt of the

    A Spirit in Prison Robert Smythe Hichens 1907

  • The indignation here is great against 'questa canaglia di Germania.'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

  • "Such canaglia are not fit to have their liberty, and I would lock them all up in prison."

    The Eternal City Hall Caine 1892

  • Sedley had stood naked in a drunken frolic; and at the King's Head, over against the Inner Temple Gate, Shaftesbury and his friends laid their plots, coming out afterwards on the double balcony in front, as North describes them, "with hats and no peruques, pipes in their mouths, merry faces and dilated throats, for vocal encouragement of the canaglia below."

    Royalty Restored 1883

  • '_Tartaglia -- canaglia_!' the old man hissed at it.

    The Torrents of Spring Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev 1850

  • The indignation here is great against 'questa canaglia di Germania.'

    The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume II Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1833

  • Fottetevi tutti voi bastardi venduti ladri della S. I.A.E e complici di questo sistema di sfruttatori e papponi che lucrano sul lavoro altrui a causa di leggi canaglia e fasciste facendo pagare prezzi esorbitanti per prodotti spesso miserabili.

    The Pirate Bay - Blog 2008

  • Fottetevi tutti voi bastardi venduti ladri della S. I.A.E e complici di questo sistema di sfruttatori e papponi che lucrano sul lavoro altrui a causa di leggi canaglia e fasciste facendo pagare prezzi esorbitanti per prodotti spesso miserabili.

    The Pirate Bay - Blog 2008

  • "Now that canaglia Marco would surely love to finish us by killing Vittorio and me.

    The Saracen: Land of the Infidel Robert Shea 1963

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