miscreant
Example Sentences
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By the end of the account, Ms. Lemann seems fed up with dashing miscreants.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 23, 2026
Katsina's government said "miscreants" had "hijacked the protests" there.
From BBC • Aug. 2, 2024
The territory I meant to investigate was not crime so much — or exclusively — as what I’ve come to call the antisocial novel, the literature of the miscreants and malcontents.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 14, 2023
If officials are not held to account for their malfeasance, and behave as miscreants, what is to prevent them from any future infractions of similar transparency violations?
From Seattle Times • Feb. 3, 2023
“Of course a hoverboard. What is it about those things and miscreants? And what did Shay plan to eat, do you suppose?”
From "Uglies" by Scott Westerfeld
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