MISCREANTS Synonyms: 106 Similar and Opposite Words

miscreants

noun

plural of miscreant

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 Elswyth can shoot ivy vines from her hands, wrapping the vines around miscreants to incapacitate them. —

Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026 The cameras safeguard lawful policing and expose miscreants masquerading as officers. —

Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026 If anything, Congress has not been tough enough with miscreants over the years. —

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. —

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. —

Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026 Little wonder that fascists and other miscreants feel welcome. —

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 And, of course, Steven Knight’s Peaky Blinders, whose Shelby family of murderers and miscreants amassed such a cult following over six seasons that the series is getting its own movie in March. —

Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 9 Jan. 2026

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Noun

In keeping with the promotion, the Sox players’ photos on the video board cast them as villains wearing black and eye patches.

— Paul Sullivan, Chicago Tribune, 17 June 2026
Beyond harsher criticism, sports media frames Black athletes differently — often naming them as villains, failures, antagonists or questioning their leadership when necessary.

— Brielle Miller, Baltimore Sun, 16 June 2026