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

Even the white, miscreant members of his skateboarding cohort are drawn with broad strokes; we don’t really know what connects them beyond hooliganism and pack loyalty.

From New York Times • Apr. 21, 2020

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