Miscreant

Synonyms for "miscreant" (98 found)

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Noun(1 words)
agitator

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Translations

58 translations across 15 languages.

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Arabic

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  • فَاسِق noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Bulgarian

4 entries
  • еретически adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • низък adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • подъл adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • еретик noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Czech

4 entries
  • kacířský adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • ničemný adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • kacíř noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)
  • nevěrec noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Finnish

2 entries
  • pahantekijä noun (one who has behaved badly or illegally)
  • vääräuskoinen noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

French

4 entries
  • mécréant adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • mécréant noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)
  • mécréante noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)
  • parpaillot noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

German

4 entries
  • Ketzer adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • Schurke adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • Ungläubiger adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • gewissenloser Mensch adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)

Greek

2 entries
  • άπιστος adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • αχρείος adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)

Macedonian

3 entries
  • ере́тички adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • по́дол adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • ере́тик noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Middle English

2 entries
  • myscreaunt adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • myscreaunt noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Polish

4 entries
  • heretycki adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • nikczemny adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • podły adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • heretyczka noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Russian

2 entries
  • еретический adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • развращённый adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)

Serbo-Croatian

4 entries
  • heretički adj (holding an incorrect religious belief)
  • bezbožnik noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)
  • bezvjerac noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)
  • heretik noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Spanish

1 entries
  • facineroso noun (one who has behaved badly or illegally)

Swedish

4 entries
  • samvetslös adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • skurkaktig adj (lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous)
  • ligist noun (one who has behaved badly or illegally)
  • missdådare noun (one who has behaved badly or illegally)

Turkish

1 entries
  • fasık noun (one who holds a false religious belief; an unbeliever)

Sample sentences

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"To thee, yea, thee, fierce miscreant", he cried, / may Heaven, if Heaven with righteous eyes behold / so foul an outrage and a deed so bold, / ne'er fail a fitting guerdon to ordain, / nor worthy quittance for thy crime withhold, / whose hand hath made me see my darling slain, / and dared with filial blood a father's eyes profane."

Source: tatoeba (6846493)

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

Source: wiktionary

The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.

Source: wiktionary

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:

Source: wiktionary

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