Meaning

3 senses
  1. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.

    The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.

  2. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.

  3. One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

    Missetäter, Missetäterin

More definitions
  • a person without moral scruples

Examples

5 sentences
  1. Edmundo wants to fight the miscreants.

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  2. I refuse to keep dealing with miscreants such as yourself.

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  3. Edmundo said he wouldn’t stop until the miscreants are killed.

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  4. The government will not fold its arms and allow miscreants and criminals to continue to perpetrate these acts of hooliganism.

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  5. All to the strange encounter, sword in hand, / rush forth, these miscreants of the deep to slay.

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Translations

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By meaning 1
one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever:

Origin

From Middle English myscreaunt, miscreaunt, from Old French mescreant (1080) "mis-believer

From Middle English myscreaunt, miscreaunt, from Old French mescreant (1080) "mis-believer", present participle of mescreire "to misbelieve" (modern mécroire). Cognate with French mécréant.

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Forms

plural: miscreants
Singularmiscreant
Pluralmiscreants

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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