blighter

plural blighters

1. One who blights.
2. CommonwealthIrelandUKoften disrespectfulA person, usually male, especially one who behaves in an objectionable or pitiable manner.
3. A man or child, especially an annoying one.

   I tackled the blighter squarely.

   1923, P. G. Wodehouse, The Inimitable Jeeves

   3 more examples

   "[I]f I had known that Pine was such a blighter as to leave me nothing, I'm hanged if I'd have allowed him to be buried in such decent company."

   1911, Fergus Hume, chapter 10, in Red Money

   He knew that the old blighter had to be humored in certain small ways.

   1919, Anthony Hope, chapter 7, in The Secret of the Tower

   Translation: there's still some hope for you, poor stammering blighter.

   2012 March 27, David Seidler, “The King's Speech play: At last, my crowning moment...”, in The Independent, UK, retrieved 27 Dec 2012