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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | wrongdoer |
| Synonyms: | adulterer, delinquent, evildoer, miscreant, murderer, reprobate, scamp, thief, transgressor, trespasser, trespasser |
| Main Entry: | blackguard |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | scoundrel |
| Synonyms: | bad egg, bum, cad, knave, lowlife, miscreant, riffraff, rogue, skunk, snake*, villain |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bad egg |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bad person |
| Synonyms: | black sheep, corrupt person, evildoer, miscreant, reprobate, sorry lot, untrustworthy person, worthless person, wrong number, wrongdoer, wrongo |
| Main Entry: | knave |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rascal |
| Synonyms: | bastard, blackguard, fraud, heel, lowlife, miscreant, rapscallion, reprobate, rogue, scallywag, scamp, scoundrel, swindler, villain |
| Main Entry: | wretch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | derelict |
| Synonyms: | beggar, bezonian, blackguard, brute, bum, caitiff, cullion, dog, ingrate, knave, liar, libertine, looser, lowlife, miscreant, outcast, pariah, pauper, pilgarlic, poltroon, rake, rapscallion, rascal, renegade, reprobate, rogue, ronion, scalawag, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, scullion, scum, snake, vagabond, varlet, villain, worm |
| Notes: | retch is to vomit or gag; wretch is a noun for a pitiable person |
| Main Entry: | scalawag |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rascal |
| Synonyms: | caitiff, miscreant, rapscallion, reprobate, rogue, scamp, scapegrace, scoundrel, trickster, varlet, villain |
| Main Entry: | praetorian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | corrupt |
| Synonyms: | abandoned, abased, baneful, boorish, degenerate, degraded, deleterious, depraved, dishonored, dissolute, evil, flagitious, infamous, loose, low, mercenary, miscreant, monstrous*, nefarious, perverse, profligate, rotten, venal, villainous |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | schismatic |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separatist |
| Synonyms: | apostate, dissenter, dissident, freethinker, heretic, iconoclast, infidel, miscreant, nonconformist, revisionist, sectarian, sectary, separationist, skeptic, unbeliever |
| Main Entry: | sectary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separatist |
| Synonyms: | apostate, dissenter, dissident, freethinker, heretic, iconoclast, infidel, miscreant, nonconformist, revisionist, schismatic, sectarian, separationist, skeptic, unbeliever |
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