Sample Sentences formiscreant (editor-reviewed)
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She warned her students that any miscreant who cheated on the test would face serious consequences.miscreant = wrongdoer
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The police quickly caught the miscreant who had been spray-painting public buildings.
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we must attack now, before yonder miscreants are strengthened by their friends. (source)miscreants = people who behave badly
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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.† (source)
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She was a second wife, many years the junior of her husband; and the hoary-headed miscreant was enough to try the patience of a wiser and better woman.† (source)
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Miscreants had bashed in the reindeers' heads.† (source)
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One by one we are hunting down the miscreants.† (source)
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Fine, but when SeaWorld, Incorporated, or whatever sends a letter to Duke University saying that miscreant Quentin Jacobsen broke into their facility at four-thirty in the morning with a wild-eyed lass at his side, Duke University will be mad.† (source)
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In mid-December, a small collection of Jews and other miscreants was brought down Munich Street again, to Dachau.† (source)
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If rape, murder, or any other miscreant activities were on Patch's mind, he'd cornered me in the perfect place.† (source)
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Fortunately, the beasts seemed more bent on stretching their paws, and yawning, and flourishing their tails, than devouring me alive; but they would suffer no resurrection, and I was forced to lie till their malignant masters pleased to deliver me: then, hatless and trembling with wrath, I ordered the miscreants to let me out — on their peril to keep me one minute longer — with several incoherent threats of retaliation that, in their indefinite depth of virulency, smacked of King Lear.† (source)
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Another slave would defecate into the mouth of the miscreant, who would then be gagged for four to five hours.† (source)
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God save the miscreants from the two of us.† (source)
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I could not let him go unpunished and so I have killed two birds with one stone: to appease the mob I gave them a victim and at the same time punished a miscreant.† (source)
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What is it about those things and miscreants?† (source)
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And when he had finished and still stood alive and whole, their wavering impulse to break their oath and save the poor betrayed prisoner's life faded and vanished away, for plainly this miscreant had sold himself to Satan and it would be fatal to meddle with the property of such a power as that.† (source)
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