miscreant
Example Sentences
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Dustin is an inveterate miscreant who blows town for the Army.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
This is something that the office has been putting their resources into and holding miscreant executives’ feet to the fire.
From Slate • Oct. 2, 2023
Bethany: I may have HAHA’d through our open car windows as we passed by this miscreant.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 22, 2023
Later, they are recruited as seamstresses, as witnesses, as a bailiff and a miscreant.
From New York Times • Dec. 14, 2022
He spent more days in jail than the runaways he brought in, snoring in a cell next to the miscreant he had stopped hours earlier.
From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
