miscreant in English
Four hundred years ago today, in 1605, the Gunpowder Plot was averted, miscreants brought to the fearsome justice of the age and a massive disruption to English history avoided.
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Use "miscreant" in a sentence
1. Fugitive is pursued, caught and Punished for some miscreant act.
2. Trussed up in a doily for some chinless miscreant to eternally enslave.
3. In contrast, Panama has not budged, reinforcing its reputation as Latin America's leading financial miscreant.
4. There is no obvious means to force a miscreant out, since euro membership is designed to be irrevocable.
5. How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.
6. 9 How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.
7. Broadly speaking, the cuddly ones should be focused on vulnerable children and the tough ones on miscreant adults.
8. The obsession with housing spilled over from Britain, a serial miscreant when it comes to house- price booms.
9. The days of a judge telling a miscreant to join the Army or go to jail are over.
10. The beak-nosed pot-bellied miscreant had a habit of breaking into a nerve-wracking cackle whenever the mood struck his flighty little brain.
11. But their forces seem no less accountable than, say, the miscreant UN contingents serving in Congo, and they would certainly be more effective.
12. See also: Artful, monkey, of, wagonload Artful dodger A rogue or miscreant who avoids getting in trouble for their crimes, mischief, or bad
13. And as for riding down that black, Atrocious miscreant, I regard it as an act of virtue, sir, like stamping on a cockroach.
14. Culprit noun offender, criminal, villain, sinner, delinquent, felon, person responsible, guilty party, wrongdoer, miscreant, malefactor, evildoer, transgressor The real Culprits in the fight have not yet been identified
15. These were certainly on the mind of one miscreant as he broke into a home in Lanzhou, a city in northwest China, in May of 20
16. Mr Godoy Toscano's desafuero may not mark an end to impunity in Mexican politics, but it does symbolically put every miscreant politician in the country on notice.
17. The argument went that Col Gaddafi had watched the fate of fellow miscreant Saddam Hussein, hanged by Iraqis after a US-instigated legal process, and had learnt a sobering lesson.
18. There are many synonyms of Blackguardly which include Base, Contemptible, Crooked, Deceitful, Despicable, Devious, Discreditable, Disgraceful, Disreputable, Fraudulent, Ignoble, Ignominious, Infamous, Inglorious, Low, Miscreant, Offensive, Scandalous, Shabby, Shady, Treacherous, Unprincipled, Unscrupulous, Untrustworthy, Putrid, Unrespectable, etc.
19. “She has agreed to meet the Caesar in the field, and he will not hesitate, like a Baseborn miscreant, to take every advantage in the encounter, which, I grieve to say, may in all likelihood be fatal to my mistress.”
20. Pugh's ‘Bathonensium et Aquisgranensium Comparatio, rebus Adjunctis illustratis,’ 1676, 8vo, was written ‘by way of epistle to his patron, Palmer.’ During the ‘popish plot’ panic of 1678 Pugh was committed to Newgate, ‘having been betrayed by a treacherous miscreant when paying a visit of charity to the catholic gentry confined in
21. (57) Similarly, while applied to generally miscreant persons who 'fyght, chide, disquiet, brawle or scolde wt ther neighbors', rather than specifically to vagabonds or beggars, the secondary punishment of whipping was taken verbatim from the 1531 Act: 'ther to be tied to thend of a Carte naked and to be Beten wt whippes through out thesame market Towne or other place tyll his or her body be blody by …