1
as in villains
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person
halt, vile miscreant, and face justice!
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as in criminals
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
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Recent Examples of miscreants
The frenetic antics of Illumination‘s mascot army of yellow miscreants have always been indebted to vintage slapstick.
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Guy Lodge,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Elswyth can shoot ivy vines from her hands, wrapping the vines around miscreants to incapacitate them.
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Chris Hewitt,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
The cameras safeguard lawful policing and expose miscreants masquerading as officers.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
If anything, Congress has not been tough enough with miscreants over the years.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
The first of these—a cult favorite among writers, particularly youngish women writers—put Lemann on the map as a singular stylist, capable of crystalline insights into the miscreants and oddballs of the American South and great bursts of unrestrained sentiment.
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Brandy Jensen,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
Yup, those $70,000-a-year-plus-benefits folks the city of San Diego has hired to creep around in the early-morning hours before the garbage trucks come and look for miscreants who have put plastic bags in the blue recycling bins or greenery in the black-now-gray trash bins.
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Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
Little wonder that fascists and other miscreants feel welcome.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2026
Regardless of the bias in whatever racial or political agenda may be behind this nightmarish remake of Eugene O’Neil’s dark drama of societal miscreants, The Iceman Cometh, the ICE men are making sure their own approval rating melts, while doing damage to both commerce and community safety.
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Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
Guy Lodge,
Variety,
22 June 2026
Elswyth can shoot ivy vines from her hands, wrapping the vines around miscreants to incapacitate them.
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Chris Hewitt,
Boston Herald,
15 May 2026
The cameras safeguard lawful policing and expose miscreants masquerading as officers.
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Voice Of The People,
New York Daily News,
1 May 2026
If anything, Congress has not been tough enough with miscreants over the years.
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Orlando Sentinel,
The Orlando Sentinel,
24 Apr. 2026
The first of these—a cult favorite among writers, particularly youngish women writers—put Lemann on the map as a singular stylist, capable of crystalline insights into the miscreants and oddballs of the American South and great bursts of unrestrained sentiment.
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Brandy Jensen,
New Yorker,
8 Apr. 2026
Yup, those $70,000-a-year-plus-benefits folks the city of San Diego has hired to creep around in the early-morning hours before the garbage trucks come and look for miscreants who have put plastic bags in the blue recycling bins or greenery in the black-now-gray trash bins.
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Inga,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
23 Mar. 2026
Little wonder that fascists and other miscreants feel welcome.
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Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
23 Feb. 2026
Regardless of the bias in whatever racial or political agenda may be behind this nightmarish remake of Eugene O’Neil’s dark drama of societal miscreants, The Iceman Cometh, the ICE men are making sure their own approval rating melts, while doing damage to both commerce and community safety.
—
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld,
Fortune,
21 Jan. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscreants
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Together, the band brings to life a mythic world of ancient heroes and villains, attracting an excited audience of headbangers and fantasy fanatics, many of whom show up in costume.
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Animation fans were in for a very tasty treat, as the episode introduced villains and set the tone for the brutal show adapted from the best-selling Vertigo series by the late Anthony Bourdain, co-created with Joel Rose.
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What begins as a chance to escape the routine of his everyday life quickly spirals into a dangerous gathering of powerful criminals, old enemies, and unresolved loyalties.
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That creates the perfect opening for criminals.
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These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
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In Raspail’s tale, hordes of impoverished and dark-skinned brutes from India descend onto French shores by way of rafts, the first wave of an invasion of the civilized West by the brown-skinned developing world.
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Deputies responded to the area and identified an undisclosed number of juveniles as the offenders, officials said.
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Survivors have fought for a full public account of priests, with San Francisco the only diocese in the state that has not released such a list of clergy abuse offenders.
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Or a group of shipwrecked boys turning into savages and killing one another?
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The Indians in Westerns had war paint and whooped like savages.
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Based on the popular Quebec comic book created by Samuel Parent and commissioned by and produced in collaboration with Télé-Québec, the series, aimed at 6 to 9-year-olds, follows the adventures of a fearless kid who confronts monsters that haunt children in the darkness of night.
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With no idea what's going on, Dylan flees the FBC to find that the Hiss — otherworldly crimson monsters from another dimension — have overrun Manhattan.
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The 152 rooms celebrate Tasmania’s cultural and creative spirit, from the contemporary paintings of thylacines and Tasmanian devils, to the Blackheart sassafras ceiling inlays.
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But there are lots of potential devils in the details (otherwise there’d be little need for experimental reactors).
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“Miscreants.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscreants. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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