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miscreant
adjective as in evil, immoral
noun as in person who is very bad, immoral
Strong matches
Weak match
Example Sentences
Owner Harold ran an effective, efficient business, but the parking lot became an attractive nuisance for miscreants.
Eventually, the system became ridden with a forgery problem as miscreants looked for a way around the rules—even if it cost them hundreds of euros.
It’s no longer enough to just accept, and revel in, a character’s badness, allowing their miscreant behavior its own aroma of mystery.
OSSE did not accept my suggestion that it never again make announcements calling hard-working families miscreants without first talking to them.
When some miscreant tweets to the world that you should kill yourself, it kinda takes the romance out of it.
Is it mere coincidence or urban mythmaking that the miscreant line jumpers are always said to be driving Mercedes?
Perhaps, too, like miscreant HAL 9000, the GOP is warming up to sing, “Daisy, Daisy.”
What would have been the course of Hazletine had he seen Motoza, not doubting, as he did, the guilt of the miscreant?
For some reasons Jack Dudley would have welcomed a meeting with this miscreant, for he held him in no fear.
Wi' matchless skeel, Tam o' the Scoots banked over an' brocht the gallant miscreant to terra firma—puir laddie!
Exemplify the sibilant impurity with such syllables as pish, false, traitress, miscreant.
The miscreant would offer harm to no one until he had gathered the knowledge he sought.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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