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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 evil
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as in heretic
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Recent Examples of miscreant
Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
The classroom resounded with snickers, whispers, giggles, snarls, and whoops from the children, and furious commands from the two nuns who gesticulated—quite ineffectually—up by the blackboard, and sometimes, in exasperation, charged down the aisle between the desks to punish a miscreant.
—Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
Hazlitt, 6 Dec. 2022
Armed with his preliminary map of miscreant territory and the powers of Big Data, Johnson wants to drive a wedge through the hate groups of this century, just as physics split apart the atom in the last one.
—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
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The defeat of Jamaal Bowman gives hope to the idea that we can get rid of Gov. Hochul, Chuck Schumer, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Kirsten Gillibrand and other miscreants of their ilk and start the Empire State on a path to morality.
—Voice Of The People, New York Daily News, 28 June 2024
The classroom resounded with snickers, whispers, giggles, snarls, and whoops from the children, and furious commands from the two nuns who gesticulated—quite ineffectually—up by the blackboard, and sometimes, in exasperation, charged down the aisle between the desks to punish a miscreant.
—Rosanna Warren, Harper's Magazine, 25 June 2024
Adjective
Near the bottom of our drinks, my most miscreant friend had a suggestion.
—Hazlitt, 6 Dec. 2022
Armed with his preliminary map of miscreant territory and the powers of Big Data, Johnson wants to drive a wedge through the hate groups of this century, just as physics split apart the atom in the last one.
—Steve Nadis, Discover Magazine, 10 Feb. 2020
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Just weeks after closing out an incredibly dominant year in music, Rihanna was cast by some fans and members of the media as the villain and endlessly harassed by those who felt Brown did nothing wrong.Kyle Denis, Billboard, 19 Nov. 2024
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Emma Corrin also starred in the film as the villain, Cassandra Nova.Joe Otterson, Variety, 18 Nov. 2024
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The story of a farmer tasked with protecting a magic baby from an evil queen is not exactly the most original story in the world, but that hasn’t stopped this from becoming a classic, with Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood and Val Kilmer waving a sword around.Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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The plot centers on Scott Pilgrim, a Canadian indie rock slacker who falls in love with a girl named Ramona Flowers and then has to fight her seven evil exes in video game-style battles.Dave Nemetz, TVLine, 20 Nov. 2024
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When searching for reprieve, there’s sanctuary in a movie musical that looks like a Broadway smash, a Colosseum full of vintage brutes, a Harry Styles simile.Raven Smith, Vogue, 19 Nov. 2024
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The Penguin's Falcone is every bit the misogynistic brute, but his actions are relegated to the off-screen imagination by being implied, rather than shown.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 24 Oct. 2024
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Cybercrime As retailers prepare for the big holiday rush — when shoplifters could also take advantage of crowds to ramp up — other kinds of criminals are at the back door.Evan Clark, WWD, 22 Nov. 2024
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Being in close proximity to Adams and the criminal as the gun went off, Jo and her unborn twins could also potentially be in danger.Nellie Andreeva, Deadline, 21 Nov. 2024
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Fitting with the film’s wicked tone, what ends up bringing Santa back to himself in Violent Night is, well, violence.Katie Rife, Vulture, 16 Nov. 2024
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The Joker has become a classic Halloween costume, practically joining the ranks of vampires and wicked witches.Marci Robin, Allure, 31 Oct. 2024
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Clearly the most godless Man of God Garfield has played — the one-two of playing a televangelist here and a Mormon cop in Under the Banner of Heaven makes for a religious diptych that’s uniquely American. tick, tick … BOOM!Rory Doherty, Vulture, 22 Oct. 2024
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His notoriously pornographic breakthrough novel, The Elementary Particles, trafficked in masturbation, flashing, orgies, and child rape but really amounted to a diatribe against a godless materialism.Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic, 24 Oct. 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
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When those writing about cyber-security and cyber-hacking do so irresponsibly, attempting merely to fan the flames of angst, there is no question that such shoddy and perhaps even iniquitous efforts are sad, hurtful, and do not advance sensibly the battle between cyber-security and cyber-hacking.Lance Eliot, Forbes, 14 June 2021
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Explore Hendersonville 13 of 18 Cary, North Carolina A testament to the city’s enthusiasm for the holidays, each year, Cary doubles its number of oversize ornaments—these decorations champion its diverse population, with nods to Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and secular celebrations.Abigail Wilt, Southern Living, 23 Nov. 2024
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Hals, too, painted the faces of a new secular élite that sought to flatter itself with the permanence of oil painting; Hals, too, caught the abundance as well as the wobbling precarity of his clients’ world, the sense that all this could tumble down tomorrow.Jackson Arn, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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“Miscreant.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/miscreant. Accessed 30 Nov. 2024.
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