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miscreant
[ mis-kree-uhnt ]
adjective
- depraved, villainous, or base.
- Archaic. holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; heretical.
noun
- a vicious or depraved person; villain.
- Archaic. a heretic or infidel.
miscreant
/ ˈmɪskrɪənt /
noun
- a wrongdoer or villain
- archaic.an unbeliever or heretic
adjective
- evil or villainous
- archaic.unbelieving or heretical
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Word History and Origins
Origin of miscreant1
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Word History and Origins
Origin of miscreant1
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Example Sentences
When some miscreant tweets to the world that you should kill yourself, it kinda takes the romance out of it.
Is it mere coincidence or urban mythmaking that the miscreant line jumpers are always said to be driving Mercedes?
Perhaps, too, like miscreant HAL 9000, the GOP is warming up to sing, “Daisy, Daisy.”
What would have been the course of Hazletine had he seen Motoza, not doubting, as he did, the guilt of the miscreant?
For some reasons Jack Dudley would have welcomed a meeting with this miscreant, for he held him in no fear.
Wi' matchless skeel, Tam o' the Scoots banked over an' brocht the gallant miscreant to terra firma—puir laddie!
Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
The miscreant would offer harm to no one until he had gathered the knowledge he sought.
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