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/mˈɪskriənt/ Listen

noun

Miscreant n.

One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. (Obs.) "Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God."

One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a depraved person; a vile wretch.

adjective

Miscreant adj.

Holding a false religious faith.

Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous; villainous; base; depraved.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Miscreant" Quotes from Famous Books

... spurning Cousin Henry away from him. "You wretched, thieving miscreant!" Then he got up on to his legs and began to adjust himself, setting his cravat right, and smoothing his hair with his hands. "The brute has knocked the breath out of me," he said. "But only to think that we should catch him after such a fashion as this!" There was a note of triumph in his voice ...

— Cousin Henry • Anthony Trollope

... he passionately exclaimed. "I never could forget thee; thy name is written on my heart; I shall never cease to love thee. The saints forfend me, Doll. I were a miscreant indeed were I to play traitor ...

— Heiress of Haddon • William E. Doubleday

... fingers' ends, but which had now relapsed into haze. There must have been some damnable taint in the blood of the common ancestor—a spice of the insane and the diabolical. They were an ill-conditioned race—that is to say, every now and then there emerged a miscreant, with a pretty evident vein of madness. There was Sir Jonathan Brandon, for instance, who ran his own nephew through the lungs in a duel fought in a paroxysm of Cencian jealousy; and afterwards shot his coachman dead upon the box through his coach-window, and finally ...

— Wylder's Hand • J. Sheridan Le Fanu

... that there were not many in that Boy's Town who would tie shirts; and I fervently hope that there is no boy now living who would do it. As the crime is probably extinct, I will say that in those wicked days, if you were such a miscreant, and there was some boy you hated, you stole up and tied the hardest kind of a knot in one arm or both arms of his shirt. Then, if the Evil One put it into your heart, you soaked the knot in water, and pounded it ...

— Boy Life - Stories and Readings Selected From The Works of William Dean Howells • William Dean Howells

... was out the poor boy was dead—murdered by some miscreant for the handful of gold in his possession, down in the ...

— The Moving Finger • Mary Gaunt

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