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miscreant

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mis·cre·ant  (mskr-nt)
n.
1. An evildoer; a villain.
2. An infidel; a heretic.
[Middle English miscreaunt, heretic, from Old French mescreant, present participle of mescroire, to disbelieve : mes-, wrongly, not; see mis-1 + croire, to believe (from Latin crdere; see kerd- in Indo-European roots).]
miscre·ant adj.
miscreant [miss-kree-ant]
Noun
a wrongdoer or villain [Old French mescreant unbelieving]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.miscreant - a person without moral scruples
reprobate
offender, wrongdoer - a person who transgresses moral or civil law
degenerate, deviant, deviate, pervert - a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior
black sheep, scapegrace - a reckless and unprincipled reprobate
wretch - performs some wicked deed


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Simon Nishikanta was fiendish in his descriptions of whatever miscreant had done the deed and of how he should be made to suffer for it, while Grimshaw clenched and repeatedly clenched his great hands as if throttling some throat.
Michael, Brother of Jerry by London, Jack View in context
And when he had finished and still stood alive and whole, their wavering impulse to break their oath and save the poor betrayed prisoner's life faded and vanished away, for plainly this miscreant had sold himself to Satan and it would be fatal to meddle with the property of such a power as that.
Tom Sawyer by Twain, Mark View in context
These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
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