Meaning

Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
2. (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.
3. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
4. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
5. (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

Example Sentences

How do we get fair treatment when confronting miscreant workers sometimes means no care at all?

The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.

Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant; Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue, Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie, The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:

A meagre Catchpole hurries me to fail; No Miscreant, so remorseless, ever tore Thy Journals, Fog, or knock'd at Franklin's door

Now wil the Chriſtian miſcreants be glad, Ringing with ioy their ſuperſtitious belles: And making bonfires for my ouerthrow. But ere I die thoſe foule Idolaters Shall make me bonfires with their filthy bones, […]

Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt, That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train Faire knighthood fowly shamed

Before thine eyes, thou mild and blessed one, said he, half aloud, are these miscreants daring to hold their market, and trafficking in their hellish drugs

Word Forms

• more miscreant
• most miscreant
• miscreaunt
• miscreants

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