reptile

matelija A cold-blooded vertebrate of the class Reptilia.
puhekieltä A mean or grovelling person.
(RQ:Fielding Tom Jone)

This work may, indeed, be considered as a great creation of our own; and for a little reptile of a critic to presume to find fault with any of its parts, without knowing the manner in which the whole is connected, and before he comes to the final catastrophe, is a most presumptuous absurdity.

"That reptile," whispered Pott, catching Mr. Pickwick by the arm, and pointing towards the stranger. "That reptile — Slurk, of the Independent!"

a reptile race or crew; reptile vices

There is also a false, reptile prudence, the result not of caution, but of fear.

And dislodge their reptile souls / From the bodies and forms of men.