Meaning of Miscreant | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
2. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
3. One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

Equivalents

Examples

“The teacher sent the miscreants to see⟳ the school principal.”

“Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant; Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue, Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie, The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:”

“A meagre Catchpole hurries me to fail⟳; No Miscreant, so remorseless, ever tore Thy Journals, Fog, or knock'd at Franklin's door”

“Now wil the Chriſtian miſcreants be glad, Ringing with ioy their ſuperſtitious belles: And making bonfires for my ouerthrow. But ere I die⟳ thoſe foule Idolaters Shall make⟳ me bonfires with their filthy bones, […]”

“Arise⟳ thou cursed Miscreaunt, That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train⟳ Faire knighthood fowly shamed”

“Before thine eyes, thou mild and blessed one, said he, half aloud, are these miscreants daring to hold⟳ their market, and trafficking in their hellish drugs”

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