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
The last point was the subject of a recent Federal Insider column about an inspector general’s finding that BOP policy “emboldens miscreant staff members” who believe they can “act without fear of disciplinary consequences.”
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2022
Still my position was a distinguished one, and I was not at all dissatisfied with it, until Fate threw me in the way of that unlimited miscreant, Trabb’s boy.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.