Both Uses of
miscreant
in
The Brothers Karamazov
- But five or six months later, all the town was talking, with intense and sincere indignation, of Lizaveta's condition, and trying to find out who was the miscreant who had wronged her.†
Chpt 3
- Then suddenly a terrible rumor was all over the town that this miscreant was no other than Fyodor Pavlovitch.†
Chpt 3 *
Definition:
a person who behaves badly or breaks rules -- especially someone who commits crimes or acts immorally