miscreant
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Dustin is an inveterate miscreant who blows town for the Army.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 17, 2025
This is something that the office has been putting their resources into and holding miscreant executives’ feet to the fire.
From Slate ● Oct. 2, 2023
Bethany: I may have HAHA’d through our open car windows as we passed by this miscreant.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 22, 2023
The bureau’s “reluctance to rely on inmate testimony” also “likely emboldens miscreant staff members in their interactions with inmates.”
From New York Times ● Oct. 13, 2022
He spent more days in jail than the runaways he brought in, snoring in a cell next to the miscreant he had stopped hours earlier.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
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