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miscreant

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of miscreant

1 a mean, evil, or unprincipled person

halt, vile miscreant, and face justice!

Synonyms of miscreant

baddie (or baddy), beast, brute, caitiff, devil, evildoer, fiend, heavy, hound, knave, meanie (also meany), monster, nazi, no-good, rapscallion, rascal, reprobate, rogue, savage, scalawag (or scallywag), scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, varlet, villain, wretch

Words Related to miscreant

criminal, crook, culprit, felon, lawbreaker, malefactor, offender, perp, perpetrator, transgressor

sinner, trespasser, wrongdoer

cad, heel, serpent, snake, viper

bandit, bravo, desperado, outlaw

con, convict, jailbird

assassin, cutthroat, gangster, goon, gunman, hoodlum, hooligan, racketeer, ruffian, thug

rough, rowdy, tough

loser, lowlife, neʼer-do-well, stinker, trash

Near Antonyms of miscreant

angel, innocent, saint

2 a person who has committed a crime

a youthful offender surrounded in prison by hard-bitten miscreants who had committed just about every crime imaginable

Synonyms of miscreant

criminal, crook, culprit, lawbreaker, malefactor, offender

Words Related to miscreant

accomplice, principal

desperado, outlaw

convict, jailbird

perp, perpetrator

evildoer, gallows bird, misdoer, misfeasor, sinner, transgressor, trespasser, villain, wrongdoer

blackhander, button man, gangster, hoodlum, hooligan, mobster, racketeer, thug

enforcer, gun, gunman, gunsel [slang], hit man, triggerman

backslider, recidivist, relapser, repeater

accused, arrestee, defendant, detainee, fish, suspect

Near Antonyms of miscreant

gangbuster, lawman

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