miscreant 1 of 2

noun

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as in villain
a mean, evil, or unprincipled person halt, vile miscreant, and face justice!

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as in offender
a person who has committed a crime a youthful offender surrounded in prison by hard-bitten miscreants who had committed just about every crime imaginable

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miscreant

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adjective

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as in evil

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as in godless

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Recent Examples of miscreant
Noun
The cameras safeguard lawful policing and expose miscreants masquerading as officers. — Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 1 May 2026 Yup, those $70,000-a-year-plus-benefits folks the city of San Diego has hired to creep around in the early-morning hours before the garbage trucks come and look for miscreants who have put plastic bags in the blue recycling bins or greenery in the black-now-gray trash bins. — Inga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 23 Mar. 2026
Adjective
But that treachery is made to seem alluring through miscreant characterizations that media folk can disavow. — Armond White, National Review, 5 Apr. 2023 The operation aims to crack down on miscreant behavior over the next few weeks with more than 200 extra police officers deployed to the area, including state troopers. — Michael Dorgan, Fox News, 29 Oct. 2024 See All Example Sentences for miscreant
Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscreant
  1. villain
  2. offender
  3. evil
  4. godless
  5. brute
  6. criminal
  7. wicked
  8. secular
Noun
  • There are probably easier ways to mount a crime thriller steeped in gritty realism than centering it on a villain made of gas.
    — Patrick Brzeski, HollywoodReporter, 6 July 2026
  • That doesn’t mean Netherlands players are villains, or anything less than heroes for their country.
    — AJ Willingham, AJC.com, 6 July 2026
Definition of villain
Noun
  • Independence Day celebrations come in the most challenging threat environment since 9/11, with the ongoing terror threat, a rise in political violence and continuing fears about lone-wolf offenders, according to Raia.
    — Luke Barr, ABC News, 3 July 2026
  • There were also concerns listed in the analysis that the registry, which dates back to 1947, could include LGBTQ+ offenders from decades ago who were convicted of offenses that are no longer crimes.
    — Andrew J. Campa, Los Angeles Times, 2 July 2026
Definition of offender
Adjective
  • There is so much evil and suffering in the world, so much conniving and malicious intent, and the self is, at least, a familiar foe.
    — Meghan O’Gieblyn, Harpers Magazine, 30 June 2026
  • When the monsters reveal an evil agenda that goes beyond becoming movie stars, the Minions are forced to battle them to save the world.
    — Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 30 June 2026
Definition of evil
Adjective
  • These are not social Democrats, these are hard-core, godless communists.
    — CBS News, CBS News, 28 June 2026
  • What better way to distinguish God-fearing Americans from the godless communists of the Soviet Union than to put God on the money?
    — David Williamson, The Orlando Sentinel, 14 June 2026
Definition of godless
Noun
  • Shinnecock was still a brute of a test, but the red numbers on the white scoreboard were an unfamiliar site for this course.
    — Doug Ferguson, Los Angeles Times, 19 June 2026
  • These brutes commonly exceed 50 pounds.
    — Keith Sutton, Outdoor Life, 18 June 2026
Definition of brute
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  • Data that appears to be compliance information to a regulator can appear to be a target list to a criminal.
    — Susie Violet Ward, Forbes.com, 2 July 2026
  • The Colorado attorney general oversees more than 700 attorneys and staff and manages legal manners spanning consumer protection, civil rights, criminal, water, constitutional and environmental law.
    — Jesse Sarles, CBS News, 1 July 2026
Definition of criminal
Adjective
  • Yamal was a thorn in Saudi Arabia’s side, drifting infield to unleash shots from distance but also peppering the penalty area with wicked deliveries from the right flank.
    — Mark Carey, New York Times, 2 July 2026
  • Has Sugar’s inherent decency become something of a moral palate cleanser for Oz’s wicked ways?
    — Brian Davids, HollywoodReporter, 27 June 2026
Definition of wicked
Adjective
  • But McClintock—secular, skeptical, profoundly unorthodox—wasn’t seeking the holy.
    — The New Yorker, New Yorker, 4 July 2026
  • The province’s right to implement Islamic law was granted by Indonesia’s secular central government around 2005 as part of a peace deal to end a separatist insurgency.
    — Bonny Chu, FOXNews.com, 3 July 2026
Definition of secular

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