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noun

miscreant

a person who behaves badly or in a way that breaks the law

In a sentence

Six example sentences with miscreant, each labelled with its topic.

  • The magistrate fined the miscreant who had painted over four shop windows and ordered him to scrub every pane.

    Law

  • Server moderators banned the miscreant who kept flooding voice chat with sirens during other players' ranked matches.

    Gaming

  • Every heist film needs one charming miscreant who picks locks, lies to police, and still buys everyone breakfast.

    Movies

  • Town records from 1640 list every miscreant fined for trading on market day without a stall license.

    History

  • The novel's miscreant steals a horse in chapter two and spends four hundred pages being forgiven for it.

    Literature

  • One miscreant defaced the forum's homepage overnight, and the volunteer admins spent the weekend restoring backups.

    Technology

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