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Definition of miscreant in English: miscreantnoun ˈmɪskrɪəntˈmɪskriənt 1A person who has done something wrong or unlawful. the police are straining every nerve to bring the miscreants to justice Example sentencesExamples - The enthusiasm for such measures reflects American frustration with crime and young miscreants, some experts say.
- The tracing of terrorists, murderers, swindlers, child-molesters and the whole motley bunch of miscreants who flit back and forth across international borders had a higher priority.
- Some towns in Russia employ trolley police with powers to fine miscreants or issue persistent trolley thieves with life-bans from the store.
- Such acts usually heralded the coming of thieves, murderers or some other class of miscreants trying to hide from something.
- What's more, they're probably so pleased to see someone when a burglar comes, they wag their tail and show the miscreant around the house!
- We are repeatedly told in the Torah that murderers - and certain other miscreants - should be put to death so that the community can be purged of their contaminating presence.
- In societies, there are freeloaders, scammers, and other miscreants.
- This is how the great criminals and miscreants of the world get started.
- She had never seen so many assassins and miscreants gathered together under the same banner in order to annihilate someone.
- Its streets attracted the villains and miscreants who would otherwise be widely dispersed.
- I keep a vigilant watch but did not see any crimes being committed or miscreants around the premises.
- The United States advocated war crimes tribunals against foreign miscreants abroad while opposing an international criminal court that might hold our own officials accountable.
- Bandits and other miscreants roamed the dirt track after sundown, waiting for a horseman to come along so they could ambush him.
- Urban miscreants love to steal public works equipment.
- Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
- In our understandable anger at the disgraceful and sickening behaviour of a small number of miscreants, we must not abandon norms of fairness and justice.
- If miscreants persisted in their illegal activity despite this warning they could be prosecuted.
- At a time when the public is calling for the heads of corporate miscreants, you would have thought that the latest Census Bureau report on poverty and income would be great campaign fodder for Democrats.
- Unfortunately, that means it could attract the wrong sort of attention from ne'er-do-wells and miscreants.
- The miscreant was traced and brought round for a stern talking to.
Synonyms criminal, culprit, wrongdoer, malefactor, offender, villain, black hat, lawbreaker, evil-doer, convict, delinquent, sinner, transgressor, outlaw, trespasser, scoundrel, wretch, reprobate, rogue, rascal Law malfeasant, misfeasor - 1.1archaic A heretic.
〈古〉异教徒；异端者；不信教者
adjective ˈmɪskrɪəntˈmɪskriənt 1(of a person) behaving badly or unlawfully. （人）道德败坏的；邪恶的；行为违法的 她那道德败坏的丈夫。 Example sentencesExamples - Police scoured the city, eventually finding and detaining the miscreant pair.
- However, while you rightly disapprove of these miscreant civilians, you will be impressed to learn that, on Saturday 25th, while proceeding in a westerly direction down the High Street, I threw myself in front of a speeding motorist.
- The case was then handed over the Foreign Crime Suppression Unit, which sent a team of officers in search for the miscreant Iraqi.
- Despite his protestations, the authorities have wisely decided to cage the miscreant youth.
- Police set out on a manhunt, armed with an accurate description and the make and model of the car the miscreant gigolo was driving.
- Mercifully, just when a major surgical procedure looked inevitable for the miscreant toddler, Mr Scott had a flash of inspiration.
- She agreed that the scoundrels should be jailed - just like, she added, miscreant priests and their duplicitous protectors among the bishops.
- It's certainly possible that Dad pulled strings because he wanted to teach his miscreant son a lesson.
- It's for your own good, and for the good of society, that dangerous and twisted individuals such as this miscreant student are incarcerated.
- The four youths, each 17 years old were arrested in a crackdown on miscreant racers.
- This meant that a miscreant official could be protected from justice by the head of his department.
- These weapons form the backbone of every kind of miscreant organisation, from local gangs to organised crime to terrorist organisations.
- It is to be hoped that this miscreant youth has learnt his lesson.
- To be sure, discord is not good, but one might suggest that honest disagreement among bishops is a healthy thing, not least in holding negligent and miscreant brothers to account.
- Whole sections of records, equivalent to decades of time, may be missing due to miscreant scribes, fires in libraries, or national upheavals leading to disruptions in official diary keeping; these are like sections of cloth missing.
- It just goes to prove that, while the most miscreant man can be terrifically terrorizing, watching a simple movie made about him can be equally torturous.
- The two miscreant youths confessed to police that they had committed almost another dozen such robberies without capture.
- She was on the first floor, after all, and it would not do if Nana found out she was going to talk to the miscreant sailors she was so pitted against.
- Jared sat down across from his miscreant son, feeling drained and exhausted and not very happy at all.
- After the revelation of the study to the institute's staff, five potentially lost teaspoons were recovered from miscreant hoarders.
Synonyms unethical, bad, morally wrong, wrongful, wicked, evil, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dishonourable, dishonest, unconscionable, iniquitous, disreputable, fraudulent, corrupt, depraved, vile, villainous, nefarious, base, unfair, underhand, devious - 1.1archaic Heretical.
〈古〉异教徒；异端者；不信教者
OriginMiddle English (as an adjective in the sense 'disbelieving'): from Old French mescreant, present participle of mescreire 'disbelieve', from mes- 'mis-' + creire 'believe' (from Latin credere). Definition of miscreant in US English: miscreantnounˈmiskrēəntˈmɪskriənt 1A person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law. 恶棍，歹徒，无赖 Example sentencesExamples - In our understandable anger at the disgraceful and sickening behaviour of a small number of miscreants, we must not abandon norms of fairness and justice.
- In societies, there are freeloaders, scammers, and other miscreants.
- I keep a vigilant watch but did not see any crimes being committed or miscreants around the premises.
- The United States advocated war crimes tribunals against foreign miscreants abroad while opposing an international criminal court that might hold our own officials accountable.
- Bandits and other miscreants roamed the dirt track after sundown, waiting for a horseman to come along so they could ambush him.
- This is how the great criminals and miscreants of the world get started.
- At a time when the public is calling for the heads of corporate miscreants, you would have thought that the latest Census Bureau report on poverty and income would be great campaign fodder for Democrats.
- Urban miscreants love to steal public works equipment.
- The tracing of terrorists, murderers, swindlers, child-molesters and the whole motley bunch of miscreants who flit back and forth across international borders had a higher priority.
- Some towns in Russia employ trolley police with powers to fine miscreants or issue persistent trolley thieves with life-bans from the store.
- Such acts usually heralded the coming of thieves, murderers or some other class of miscreants trying to hide from something.
- She had never seen so many assassins and miscreants gathered together under the same banner in order to annihilate someone.
- The miscreant was traced and brought round for a stern talking to.
- Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
- If miscreants persisted in their illegal activity despite this warning they could be prosecuted.
- The enthusiasm for such measures reflects American frustration with crime and young miscreants, some experts say.
- What's more, they're probably so pleased to see someone when a burglar comes, they wag their tail and show the miscreant around the house!
- Its streets attracted the villains and miscreants who would otherwise be widely dispersed.
- Unfortunately, that means it could attract the wrong sort of attention from ne'er-do-wells and miscreants.
- We are repeatedly told in the Torah that murderers - and certain other miscreants - should be put to death so that the community can be purged of their contaminating presence.
Synonyms criminal, culprit, wrongdoer, malefactor, offender, villain, black hat, lawbreaker, evil-doer, convict, delinquent, sinner, transgressor, outlaw, trespasser, scoundrel, wretch, reprobate, rogue, rascal - 1.1archaic A heretic.
〈古〉异教徒；异端者；不信教者
adjectiveˈmiskrēəntˈmɪskriənt 1(of a person) behaving badly or in a way that breaks a law or rule. 恶棍，歹徒，无赖 她那道德败坏的丈夫。 Example sentencesExamples - It just goes to prove that, while the most miscreant man can be terrifically terrorizing, watching a simple movie made about him can be equally torturous.
- Whole sections of records, equivalent to decades of time, may be missing due to miscreant scribes, fires in libraries, or national upheavals leading to disruptions in official diary keeping; these are like sections of cloth missing.
- The two miscreant youths confessed to police that they had committed almost another dozen such robberies without capture.
- Police set out on a manhunt, armed with an accurate description and the make and model of the car the miscreant gigolo was driving.
- It is to be hoped that this miscreant youth has learnt his lesson.
- Despite his protestations, the authorities have wisely decided to cage the miscreant youth.
- To be sure, discord is not good, but one might suggest that honest disagreement among bishops is a healthy thing, not least in holding negligent and miscreant brothers to account.
- Jared sat down across from his miscreant son, feeling drained and exhausted and not very happy at all.
- These weapons form the backbone of every kind of miscreant organisation, from local gangs to organised crime to terrorist organisations.
- This meant that a miscreant official could be protected from justice by the head of his department.
- Mercifully, just when a major surgical procedure looked inevitable for the miscreant toddler, Mr Scott had a flash of inspiration.
- Police scoured the city, eventually finding and detaining the miscreant pair.
- She was on the first floor, after all, and it would not do if Nana found out she was going to talk to the miscreant sailors she was so pitted against.
- It's certainly possible that Dad pulled strings because he wanted to teach his miscreant son a lesson.
- The four youths, each 17 years old were arrested in a crackdown on miscreant racers.
- It's for your own good, and for the good of society, that dangerous and twisted individuals such as this miscreant student are incarcerated.
- She agreed that the scoundrels should be jailed - just like, she added, miscreant priests and their duplicitous protectors among the bishops.
- However, while you rightly disapprove of these miscreant civilians, you will be impressed to learn that, on Saturday 25th, while proceeding in a westerly direction down the High Street, I threw myself in front of a speeding motorist.
- The case was then handed over the Foreign Crime Suppression Unit, which sent a team of officers in search for the miscreant Iraqi.
- After the revelation of the study to the institute's staff, five potentially lost teaspoons were recovered from miscreant hoarders.
Synonyms unethical, bad, morally wrong, wrongful, wicked, evil, unprincipled, unscrupulous, dishonourable, dishonest, unconscionable, iniquitous, disreputable, fraudulent, corrupt, depraved, vile, villainous, nefarious, base, unfair, underhand, devious - 1.1archaic Heretical.
〈古〉异教徒；异端者；不信教者
OriginMiddle English (as an adjective in the sense ‘disbelieving’): from Old French mescreant, present participle of mescreire ‘disbelieve’, from mes- ‘mis-’ + creire ‘believe’ (from Latin credere). |