What is another word for miscreants?

Pronunciation: [mˈɪskɹi͡ənts] (IPA)

Miscreants are individuals who behave immorally or engage in unlawful activities. There are a variety of synonyms that can be used to describe such individuals. One possible synonym is "delinquent," which refers to someone who has committed a crime or violated a rule. Other possible synonyms include "criminal," "offender," "culprit," "lawbreaker," or "malefactor," which all imply that the person has done something wrong or illegal. Words like "villain," "rogue," or "scoundrel" have a more disdainful connotation and imply a more permanent disposition to wrongdoing. Use of these synonyms varies depending on the context and the severity of the offense committed.

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Usage examples for Miscreants

Those miscreants forgot that Wolseley's English army, hurrying to Gordon's relief, is already on the way and will cut them off from the Mahdi.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
Were every rake, nay, were every man, to sit down, as I do, and write all that enters into his head, or into his heart, and to accuse himself with equal freedom and truth, what an army of miscreants should I have to keep me in countenance!
"Clarissa, Volume 5 (of 9)"
Samuel Richardson
The miscreants talked of five guineas, for the pretended risk they should run, in giving him a fortnight to sell his effects to the best advantage.
"Anna St. Ives"
Thomas Holcroft

Famous quotes with Miscreants

  • It is very clear to an unbiased reader that the Gonda carnage has started with a pre-meditated attack on the procession. Going by the original newspaper reports, some Janata Dal miscreants affiliated with Muslim party leaders were the aggressors, and the processionists were the victims. However, it is in the nature of aggression that the victims get the blame. Thus, a rapist will usually say that the girl had asked for it, that she had provoked him. Here too, it is not stated simply that the processionists were attacked. Rather, it is said in goonda-speak, approvingly broadcast by the secularist press, that the procession has provoked violence and caused riots.
    Koenraad Elst
  • The negro is fundamentally the biological inferior of all White and even Mongolian races, and the Northern people must occasionally be reminded of the danger which they incur in admitting him too freely to the privileges of society and government. … … is said to furnish a remarkable insight into the methods of the Ku-Klux-Klan, that noble but much maligned band of Southerners who saved half of our country from destruction at the close of the Civil War. The Conservative has not yet witnessed the picture in question, but he has seen both in literary and dramatic form , that stirring, though crude and melodramatic story by Rev. Thomas Dixon, Jr., on which is based, and has likewise made a close historical study of the Klu-Klux-Klan, finding as a result of his research nothing but Honour, Chivalry, and Patriotism in the activities of the Invisible Empire. The Klan merely did for the people what the law refused to do, removing the ballot from unfit hands and restoring to the victims of political vindictiveness their natural rights. The alleged lawbreaking of the Klan was committed only by irresponsible miscreants who, after the dissolution of the Order by its Grand Wizard, Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, used its weird masks and terrifying costumes to veil their unorganised villainies. Race prejudice is a gift of Nature, intended to preserve in purity the various divisions of mankind which the ages have evolved.
    H. P. Lovecraft

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