Definition of miscreant
1 : unbelieving, heretical miscreant pagans
2 : depraved, villainous miscreant behavior miscreant gangs
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Origin and Etymology of miscreant
Middle English miscreaunt, from Anglo-French mescreant, present participle of mescreire to disbelieve, from mes- + creire to believe, from Latin credere — more at creed
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Examples of miscreant in a Sentence
He supports tough penalties against corporate miscreants.
halt, vile miscreant, and face justice!
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Volume two came out in April 2016, and the third arrives on Saturday, July 22—Dumpster Tapes has corralled 25 more bands, including lo-fi darlings Bunny, power-pop heartthrob Dan Rico, and postpunk miscreants No Men.
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This is the presitigitation that magically metamorphosizes black boys into thugs, black women into miscreants and black bodies into cadavers.
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The show, which lasted a season, was about a Navy officer on a World War II cargo ship who must contend with a vicious captain and a crew of miscreants.
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Miami police responding to the accident discovered the miscreant wasn’t an authorized driver of that ambulance and arrested him.
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Instead of the glorious Camelot, this Arthur’s origin story begins in hardscrabble fashion, finding the hero living out of a brothel and heading up a gang of miscreants.
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Call stadium security about such incidents but before that the miscreant must be singled out, isolated and rebuked.
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The championship team of 2007, which had Chris Pronger and other large miscreants, ranked only 16th in the league in shorthandedness.
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Meanwhile, Fox News continues to deal with the toxic fallout from their big-shot miscreants.
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Origin and Etymology of miscreant
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Definition of miscreant for English Language Learners
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: a person who does something that is illegal or morally wrong
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