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Definition
a person who behaves badly
- Then suddenly a terrible rumor was all over the town that this miscreant was no other than Fyodor Pavlovitch.Book 3 — The Sensualists (11% in)
- 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.Book 3 — The Sensualists (11% in)
There are no more uses of "miscreant" in The Brothers Karamazov.
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