Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
miscreance . - noun The state of being a miscreant; turpitude.
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- noun Alternative form of
miscreance .
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Examples
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Niedenthal and Chutaro guide their nonprofessional cast through a screenplay that is fairly complex with issues relating to spiritualism, guilt, miscreancy, angst and emotional isolation.
Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat 2010
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Is either critic excused from the intellectual responsibility of correcting error by the miscreancy of the other?
Whether true or not 2009
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You just note that I "decline to defend" myself, and then you ask your readers if a critic who happens to be in the position you've just slotted me into is ever "excused from the intellectual responsibility of correcting error by the miscreancy of the other?"
Whether true or not 2009
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It will not be hard to lay all of the mischief, miscreancy, and arrogance of the 2006 mid-term elections at his feet.
June 2006 2006
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The Catholic Church is hierarchically organized; the seal of confession has often been operative in cases of clerical as well as lay miscreancy, and is reinforced by professional clubbiness; and among those who commit themselves to lifelong celibacy, a certain amount of severe psychosexual immaturity is only to be expected.
Archive 2007-01-01 Mike L 2007
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The Catholic Church is hierarchically organized; the seal of confession has often been operative in cases of clerical as well as lay miscreancy, and is reinforced by professional clubbiness; and among those who commit themselves to lifelong celibacy, a certain amount of severe psychosexual immaturity is only to be expected.
The sex-abuse scandal in the Church: five years on Mike L 2007
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If oaths are to be violated, laws disregarded, friendship betrayed, humanity trampled, national and individual honor stained, and if a jury of fathers and of husbands will give such miscreancy a passport to their homes, and wives, and daughters, -- farewell to all that yet remains of
The Art of Public Speaking Dale Carnagey 1906
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Secondly, "the pot shrank rapidly" implies that here was some miscreancy within the Poetry organization.
Chicago Reader 2010
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Some of them betrayed him, and his administration was rife with political miscreancy - including the Teapot Dome scandal.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Then there's a whole other level of offensive content, like sexual miscreancy ...
blogTO 2010
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