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miscreant
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a person without moral scruples [syn: reprobate ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. 2 (context theology English) Holding an incorrect religious belief. alt. 1 Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. 2 (context theology English) Holding an incorrect religious ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Miscreant \Mis"cre*ant\, a. Holding a false religious faith. Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous; villainous; base; depraved. --Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, "non-Christian, pagan, infidel;" early 15c., "heretical, unbelieving," from Old French mescreant "disbelieving" (Modern French mécréant ), from mes- "wrongly" (see mis- (2)) + creant , present participle of creire "believe," from Latin credere (see ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute. ▪ Are the miscreants aware that they are guilty of trespass and criminal damage? ▪ In spite of their best efforts, ...
Usage examples of miscreant.
Synnovea could imagine what the presence of this miscreant meant and she was absolutely terrified.
But where would you find another Commodus if some lurking miscreant should stab me from behind?
Oswego makes a distant mark, and that miscreant showed little more than his head and shoulders above the bushes, and an onpractysed hand and eye might have failed.
I came suddenly upon a camp of six Mingos asleep in the woods, with their guns and horns piled in away that enabled me to get possession of them without waking a miscreant of them all.
The Angel Jimmy Jesus, you are hereby invested by this Committee with the fullest authorization to deepen and expand your manhunt for the selfsame miscreant and all who might aid or abet him.
If I judge that the miscreant cannot learn better, he will be rendered incapable of repetition.
You see, the actual time when the miscreant must have sneaked into the room had now been narrowed down to about an hour and a half, between the time when Mrs.
Yet there were no marks of injury upon the body, nothing to show how sufficient unconsciousness had been produced in the victim to permit of the miscreant completing his awesome deed.
Laputa was probably of that opinion, but Henriques would recognize me, and I had no wish to have that yellow miscreant investigating my character.
You want me to spend my nights skulking up and down the roadways, probably catching my death of damp, searching out the miscreant who is impersonating our dear Jack, then haul the bastard to justice.
I hold in my hand, signed by yourself, and given to the miscreant in question.
He noted the contradictions in the declarations of Tozer the instant they were made, but gave no evidence of it, his object being to draw out the miscreant, in which purpose he succeeded perfectly.
Jack Dudley would have welcomed a meeting with this miscreant, for he held him in no fear.
It was not improbable that the miscreant, having committed the unspeakable crime, was concealing it from Tozer, his ally in the dreadful business.
To appeal for mercy would delight the miscreant and not aid the prisoner.