A vile, sorry, or despicable person; one of opprobrious or reprehensible character; a mean or contemptible creature. Also without article.

figurative. Moral corruption, depravity, or impurity; sinfulness; obscene, offensive, or disgusting behaviour.

A wretch; a fiend. Chiefly in terms of disparagement, as in bird of hell, devil's bird, etc. Obsolete.

Originally, a low-born base-minded rustic; a man of ignoble ideas or instincts; in later use, an… Used as a term of opprobrious address.

Expressing contempt, and often involving strong moral disapprobation: A base, mean, despicable ‘wretch’, a villain. In early use often not separable…

A word of uncertain origin, frequent in Cursor Mundi, the later texts of which render it caitiff or wretch.

A term of depreciation: (apparently) Craven, caitiff.

An assistant to a chef or cook; a kitchen servant, a scullion. Also in extended use, as a term of abuse: a man of low birth or status; a knave, a…

A person of vulgar or disreputable character or manners; a lout; a ruffian; a rogue. Obsolete.

A low, mean, or contemptible fellow; a rascal, rogue.

In extended use. A derogatory term for: a disreputable, greedy, garrulous, or slovenly person. Obsolete.

figurative in various uses: One who collects filth; one who does ‘dirty work’; a dishonourable person. Also, in favourable sense, one who labours…

A scurvy fellow.

As a term of abuse: a person of low social status; an ignorant, stupid, unsophisticated, or (formerly esp.) unprincipled person; a boor, a lout…

slang. A term of abuse or depreciation applied to persons. A mean, low, ‘scurvy’ fellow; a rascal, scoundrel. †occasionally applied to a woman.

(a) A raw recruit. (b) As a term of contempt: needy beggar, base fellow, knave, rascal.

In less serious use: Rascal; fellow. Obsolete.

Perhaps: a waif or ragamuffin.

derogatory. A person who is despicable, esp. one who is intellectually or morally deficient; a lowly person. Now rare.

Chiefly as blackguard. A person, esp. a man, who behaves in a dishonourable or contemptible way; someone worthless or despicable; a villain. Now…

A worthless, dirty, or disreputable person; a vagrant. Cf. rapscallion, n.

Frequently in plural. A nasty person or character; esp. a villain.

colloquial. A fellow of low vulgar manners and behaviour. (An offensive and insulting appellation.)

A person of objectionable manners or anti-social behaviour; a cad. Also in milder use as a term of playful abuse. (Occasionally applied to a woman.)…

(a) U.S. a person awarded a mark of distinction (cf. letter, n.1 3a) in three different sports; (b) colloquial an obnoxious person.