Meaning & use
miscreant
A person who behaves badly or breaks the law; a villain or wrongdoer.
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The old sheriff spent his whole career chasing miscreants out of town.
Security cameras caught the miscreants spray-painting the side of the school wall.
A note on using this word
Miscreant sounds somewhat old-fashioned today and is often used with light irony rather than deadly seriousness.
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