How to Use miscreant in a Sentence

miscreant

1 of 2 adjective
  • Fred is dead, his headless body hanging on the wall where miscreant handmaids were hung.
    — Erica Gonzales, Harper's BAZAAR, 16 June 2021
  • Once inside, however, the miscreant sister communicates (via walkie-talkie) in a squeal of wordless agony.
    — Dennis Harvey, Variety, 14 Mar. 2026
  • Police unions can be faulted for their support of miscreant members, but this is characteristic of unions more generally.
    — Harper's Magazine, 24 Nov. 2020
  • Keep in mind that the cultural sensibility that is ingrained by a successful CEO is one of a miscreant-free zone.
    — Shakeel Ahmed, Forbes, 15 Apr. 2021
  • Armed with his preliminary map of miscreant territory and the powers of Big Data, Johnson wants to drive a wedge through the hate groups of this century, just as physics split apart the atom in the last one.
    — Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
  • In contrast, the editorial points to Detroit police as being appropriately aggressive in stopping miscreant drivers.
    — Bill Laitner, Detroit Free Press, 15 Feb. 2022
  • In fact, Whitman’s imaginary westerner, a patriot who repudiated party politics and miscreant politicians, differed sharply from the actual Lincoln, who was a politician to his marrow.
    — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 13 Apr. 2021
  • In fact, Whitman’s imaginary westerner, a patriot who repudiated party politics and miscreant politicians, differed sharply from the actual Lincoln, who was a politician to his marrow.
    — Sean Wilentz, The New York Review of Books, 29 Apr. 2021
  • While Thrasher trashed Transworld and embraced miscreant behavior, Transworld focused on positivity and the beauty of the sport, opening them up to advertisers that would never approach Thrasher, such as children’s summer camps.
    — Kevin L. Jones, San Francisco Chronicle, 13 Feb. 2021
  • SkySafe, a San Diego startup that makes technology to protect airspace around airports, stadiums and critical infrastructure from miscreant drones, has raised $30 million in a second round of venture capital funding.
    — Mike Freeman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Dec. 2021

miscreant

2 of 2 noun
  • He supports tough penalties against corporate miscreants.
  • With big data to crunch and nowhere for miscreants to hide, perhaps top-down rule can at last be made to work.
    — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
  • How pleased the miscreant would be to have a television before him now.
    — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
  • The entire French state has been put into gear to track down the miscreants.
    — Lionel Laurent, Twin Cities, 24 Oct. 2025
  • If anything, Congress has not been tough enough with miscreants over the years.
    — Orlando Sentinel, The Orlando Sentinel, 24 Apr. 2026
  • How these miscreants are defined is one of the most worrying aspects.
    — Robert Foyle Hunwick, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2018
  • Prosecutors hailed the case as proof of the crackdown on miscreant banks.
    — Peter J. Henning, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
  • One day, prior to a fishery opening, the miscreant used his new yellow skiff to bring a good load of salmon from above the line.
    — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
  • One miscreant falls, another rises, and the song remains the same.
    — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
  • Mr Duterte’s hard line on drug dealers and other miscreants was at the core of his election campaign.
    — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
  • And which one is the miscreant that drives nerve degeneration?
    — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
  • One table is occupied by a gang of miscreants in softball jerseys.
    — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
  • Now the 77-year-old miscreant is watching the world catch up to his underground spirit.
    — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
  • Elswyth can shoot ivy vines from her hands, wrapping the vines around miscreants to incapacitate them.
    — Chris Hewitt, Boston Herald, 15 May 2026
  • Even miscreants like Steve Albini had purist creeds of conduct.
    — Chris R. Morgan, The Washington Examiner, 22 Aug. 2025
  • The driver doesn’t like the driving antics of this upcoming miscreant.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 May 2021
  • The aim was to ensure that any unusual dealing patterns would be discovered while the miscreant was away from their desk.
    — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
  • Space crimes, time crimes, crypto miscreants, brain hacking, AI, robotic crimes.
    — Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 6 Oct. 2025
  • The cockeyed miscreant and stand-out basketball player was at least a full foot taller than me, dumb as a box of bullfrogs, and had breath that smelled like a sewage plant.
    — Goldie Taylor, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
  • Meanwhile, Fox News continues to deal with the toxic fallout from their big-shot miscreants.
    — James Wolcott, The Hive, 28 Apr. 2017
  • Little wonder that fascists and other miscreants feel welcome.
    — Tom Nichols, The Atlantic, 23 Feb. 2026
  • The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed and chaos prevails over the attempt at order.
    — Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2023
  • Passengers who point out the requirement are always ignored and usually met with a vulgar tirade by the miscreant.
    — Gary Richards, The Mercury News, 21 June 2019
  • The plot turns on whether Mickey will prevail against an assortment of competitors and miscreants who want to relieve him of his profits.
    — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
  • In addition, the group is now vigorously impassioned about whatever the miscreant has given as a bone to chew on.
    — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 10 July 2022
  • Forget headlines about ransomware paid, or about the billions of dollars lost every year to increasingly clever miscreants.
    — Rick Bennett, Time, 17 Sep. 2025
  • Horrified Orcadians ostracized the miscreant and twice tried to burn down his home.
    — Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
  • What hasn’t yet emerged are calls from the general public to corral the miscreants who destroyed Philadelphia.
    — Jenn M. Jackson, Teen Vogue, 5 Feb. 2018
  • Once signed up, their Google account is only able to gather data from a few secure apps so that miscreants can’t get to their inbox or Google drive via them.
    — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
  • There’s no need to revisit Mike Brown’s long history of hiring miscreants and malcontents.
    — Richard Fitch, Cincinnati.com, 19 Jan. 2018

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