Sample sentences for MISCREANT

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Definition

a person who behaves badly

a teacher always on the lookout for miscreants

we must attack now, before yonder miscreants are strengthened by their friends.
C.S. Lewis -- The Last Battle

miscreants = people who behave badly

Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for four to five hours.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Outliers
None may stand before us once we set forth to cleanse Alagaesia of every miscreant, traitor, and subversive.
Christopher Paolini -- Eldest
God save the miscreants from the two of us.
James Patterson -- Kiss the Girls
In mid-December, a small collection of Jews and other miscreants was brought down Munich Street again, to Dachau.
Markus Zusak -- The Book Thief
My lord merely said to his head miscreant, coolly: "Put up the slaves and sell them!"
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
But let these miscreants look well to themselves, for there is a day coming when I will require of them a heavy reckoning for this work.
Mark Twain -- The Prince and The Pauper
"Crime!" echoed Edwards: "is it a crime to drive a prying miscreant from his door?
James Fenimore Cooper -- The Pioneers
A sudden fury rose within him and he felt a strong desire to take up his machete, go to the church and wipe out the entire vile and miscreant gang.
Chinua Achebe -- Things Fall Apart
Where are there giants in Spain or miscreants in La Mancha, or enchanted Dulcineas, or all the rest of the silly things they tell about you?
Miguel de Cervantes -- Don Quixote
You tell those fidgeting miscreants that they will stand in place all morning until it pleases me to acknowledge them.
Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
Miscreant Foulon taken, my daughter!
Charles Dickens -- A Tale of Two Cities
What miscreant lurked in them, presently to be detected by the activities of the law?
E.M. Forster -- A Passage to India
If rape, murder, or any other miscreant activities were on Patch's mind, he'd cornered me in the perfect place.
Becca Fitzpatrick -- Hush, Hush
"There go two miscreants;" said he, "it is a pity they are not really related!
Alexandre Dumas -- The Count of Monte Cristo
So it befell on a time that the miscreant Saracens landed in the country of Cornwall soon after these Sessoins were gone.
Thomas Malory -- Le Morte D'Arthur
It was the black miscreants who perpetrated mutiny, murder, and the repeated torture of my clients during a harrowing voyage of more than eight weeks.
Alexs Pate -- Amistad
And here, gentlemen, the foul play of these miscreants must come out.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
The miscreants have written a tissue of calumny in their article, and these are the men who seek for truth, and do battle for the right!
Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot

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