miscreant
Americanadjective
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depraved, villainous, or base.
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Archaic. holding a false or unorthodox religious belief; heretical.
noun
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a vicious or depraved person; villain.
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Archaic. a heretic or infidel.
noun
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a wrongdoer or villain
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archaic an unbeliever or heretic
adjective
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evil or villainous
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archaic unbelieving or heretical
Etymology
Origin of miscreant
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French mescreant unbelieving, equivalent to mes- mis- 1 + creant ≪ Latin crēdent- credent
Example Sentences
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Dustin is an inveterate miscreant who blows town for the Army.
In an effort to counter the worst offenders Cloudflare previously developed a system where the worst miscreants would be sent to a "Labyrinth" of web pages filled with AI generated junk.
From BBC
Estrada praised his team for going after white supremacist gangs, fentanyl dealers, environmental polluters and other miscreants while favoring no party and no ideology.
From Los Angeles Times
Katsina's government said "miscreants" had "hijacked the protests" there.
From BBC
He counted himself among the socially marginalized and once joked in a personal letter about “all us miscreants who drifted into the Bowery of Life, the art world.”
From New York Times
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