MISCREANT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does miscreant mean? 

• MISCREANT (noun)
  The noun MISCREANT has 1 sense:

1. a person without moral scruples

  Familiarity information: MISCREANT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MISCREANT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person without moral scruples

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

miscreant; reprobate

Hypernyms ("miscreant" is a kind of...):

offender; wrongdoer (a person who transgresses moral or civil law)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "miscreant"):

degenerate; deviant; deviate; pervert (a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior)

black sheep; scapegrace (a reckless and unprincipled reprobate)

wretch (performs some wicked deed)

 Context examples 

“The miscreant follows still! There is the very man of whom I speak.”

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These, in their turn, cursed back at the blind miscreant, threatened him in horrid terms, and tried in vain to catch the stick and wrest it from his grasp.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

The researchers reasoned they could genetically engineer T cells to express portions of Dsg3, and thus specifically destroy the miscreant B cells without affecting the rest of the immune system.

(Approach targets autoimmunity, NIH)

And as for riding down that black, atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir, like stamping on a cockroach.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)