miscreant

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This miscreant was arrested with the forearm of a missing child in his pocket, and in his stove were found the head and entrails in a half-burnt condition.

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  1. noun An evildoer; a villain.
  2. noun An infidel; a heretic.

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  • Nelson said he was a miscreant, a poltroon, and a liar. —  Drake, Nelson and Napoleon
  • Kalawnn—explain how this miscreant was able to pry into our sacred archives. —  May, Julian - Boreal Moon 2 - Ironcrown Moon
  • Each shepherd was busy rounding up and correcting his own special miscreant, and Lombard, Haraldsen, and Peter John and I were left to ourselves. —  THE ISLAND OF SHEEP
  • "This miscreant is with you I guess she is," Breanna said. —  Swell Foop
  • You understand The two men quickly departed, and Renardet said to the doctor What miscreant has been able to do such a deed in this part of the country The doctor murmured Who knows? —  The works of Guy de Maupassant, Vol. 5 (of 8) Une Vie and Other Stories
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  1. Middle English miscreaunt, heretic, from Old French mescreant, present participle of mescroire, to disbelieve : mes-, wrongly, not; see mis-1 + croire, to believe (from Latin crēdere; see kerd- in Indo-European roots).

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  1. from Middle English miscreant, miscreaunt, from Old French mescreant, French mécréant (= Italian miscredente), misbelieving, unbelieving, from mes- + creant, believing: see mis- and creant, credent.
 

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