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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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as in heretic
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Recent Examples of miscreant
Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2024
Kreamer’s balladeer, who frames many of our interactions with these assassins, morphs disturbingly into Lee Harvey Oswald, with great attention to what pushed a depressed seeker to move towards those miscreants who came before him.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
Near the bottom of our drinks, my most miscreant friend had a suggestion.
—Hazlitt, 6 Dec. 2022
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Noun
Popular on Variety Kevin is accompanied on these travels by the namesake band of miscreants, who are led by the overly confident Penelope (a phenomenal Lisa Kudrow).
—Alison Herman, Variety, 24 July 2024
Kreamer’s balladeer, who frames many of our interactions with these assassins, morphs disturbingly into Lee Harvey Oswald, with great attention to what pushed a depressed seeker to move towards those miscreants who came before him.
—David John Chávez, The Mercury News, 18 July 2024
Adjective
Misbehaving, miscreant owners.
—Bryce Millercolumnist, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 Jan. 2023
Near the bottom of our drinks, my most miscreant friend had a suggestion.
—Hazlitt, 6 Dec. 2022
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for miscreant
Noun
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The actor was also fired from his role in the Marvel Cinematic Universe as the villain Kang the Conqueror, who was originally intended to feature in the next two Avengers films.—
Tommy McArdle,
People.com,
5 Feb. 2025
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His music has served as a vehicle for haunting, bombastic fantasies, often with himself as the villain.—
Carrie Battan,
The New Yorker,
5 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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After all, how many evil corporations have started because a guy got embarrassed about his wiener in the woods?—
Josh Wigler,
The Hollywood Reporter,
10 Feb. 2025
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Other groups saw them as fires generated by evil sky spirits.—
Ari Daniel,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Smith has been on the outer of the Australian team in the T20 format, his weakest format where his lack of power can get exposed in a game dotted by muscular brutes.—
Tristan Lavalette,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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Maliki is a divisive brute whom Iran supports to the hilt.—
Dov Friedman,
Foreign Affairs,
17 June 2014
Noun
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Many citizens have come to believe that for too long, the rights of criminals have trumped the rights of citizens to be safe and free from violence.—
Pioneer Press,
Twin Cities,
8 Feb. 2025
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Mosby, like other progressive prosecutors, bent laws to tilt the scales of justice in favor of criminals in the name of reform.—
Barnini Chakraborty,
Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government,
7 Feb. 2025
Adjective
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This is a wicked satire that would make Jonathan Swift sit up and take notice.—
Barbara Ellis,
The Denver Post,
3 Feb. 2025
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Cinderella becomes Cinderella, and Elvira becomes the wicked stepsister.—
Scott Roxborough,
The Hollywood Reporter,
26 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Compared with the heavenly bliss promised at the end of Revelation, Byron’s godless planet was bleak stuff indeed.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
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The personal abjection in McGahern’s novels is best understood as an allegory of social despair, which is in turn allegorical of a godless existence.—
Sam Sacks,
Harper's Magazine,
2 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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That morning, on the day of his exam, looking up at the stone façades, Gabriel suddenly realized that this was a place that existed not despite but because of the iniquitous history exhibited here.—
Daisy Hildyard,
The New Yorker,
15 Dec. 2024
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Palestinian leaders rejected the 1947 UN Partition Plan for its iniquitous terms, but then accepted partition on significantly less advantageous terms in 1988.—
Hussein Agha,
Foreign Affairs,
16 Feb. 2021
Adjective
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In 2006, Hamas wrested control of Gaza from Fatah, the secular party of the Palestinian Authority.—
Claudine Ebeid,
The Atlantic,
6 Feb. 2025
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Many even moved between Islamist and secular armed groups.—
NAFEES HAMID,
Foreign Affairs,
31 Jan. 2025
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“Miscreant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscreant. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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