How to Use miscreant in a Sentence

miscreant

noun

• He supports tough penalties against corporate miscreants.
• There is no longer any place for any miscreants to hide.
  — Inga Saffron, Philly.com, 26 Apr. 2018
• The miscreants skated to the locker rooms, their games over.
  — Victor Mather, New York Times, 28 Nov. 2023
• With big data to crunch and nowhere for miscreants to hide, perhaps top-down rule can at last be made to work.
  — The Economist, 2 Nov. 2019
• Of course, the plan could also backfire: What if the eight miscreants corrupt the entire flock?
  — Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 26 Jan. 2024
• One day, prior to a fishery opening, the miscreant used his new yellow skiff to bring a good load of salmon from above the line.
  — John Schandelmeier, Anchorage Daily News, 7 July 2018
• How pleased the miscreant would be to have a television before him now.
  — Chuck Plunkett, The Denver Post, 4 Feb. 2017
• Now the 77-year-old miscreant is watching the world catch up to his underground spirit.
  — Peter Debruge, Variety, 14 Sep. 2023
• Mr Duterte’s hard line on drug dealers and other miscreants was at the core of his election campaign.
  — The Economist, 20 Feb. 2020
• Prosecutors hailed the case as proof of the crackdown on miscreant banks.
  — Peter J. Henning, New York Times, 8 Feb. 2016
• One miscreant falls, another rises, and the song remains the same.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 2 Feb. 2022
• The cockeyed miscreant and stand-out basketball player was at least a full foot taller than me, dumb as a box of bullfrogs, and had breath that smelled like a sewage plant.
  — Goldie Taylor, Rolling Stone, 12 Feb. 2023
• How these miscreants are defined is one of the most worrying aspects.
  — Robert Foyle Hunwick, The New Republic, 25 Apr. 2018
• Boston sports fans of a certain age could harken back to the days when Johnny Most, legendary radio voice of the Celtics, would have jumped at the chance to attach nicknames to such miscreants.
  — Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 23 Apr. 2023
• The miscreants now terrorizing Japan are, in fact, ants.
  — Sean McLain, WSJ, 26 July 2017
• That's generally how aldermen—even the miscreants—rise to the top in the Chicago City Council.
  — Ben Joravsky, Chicago Reader, 24 May 2018
• Sadly, given the failure of Republicans so far to do much to stand up to the miscreant in the Oval Office, this could well be one series where the bad guy gets away with his crimes.
  — chicagotribune.com, 25 July 2017
• The aim was to ensure that any unusual dealing patterns would be discovered while the miscreant was away from their desk.
  — The Economist, 8 Aug. 2019
• Meanwhile, Fox News continues to deal with the toxic fallout from their big-shot miscreants.
  — James Wolcott, The Hive, 28 Apr. 2017
• The driver doesn’t like the driving antics of this upcoming miscreant.
  — Lance Eliot, Forbes, 17 May 2021
• And which one is the miscreant that drives nerve degeneration?
  — Linda Marsa, Discover Magazine, 3 Dec. 2019
• That’s what Harding and her small band of miscreants did in 1994 to shame American figure skating and meddle with the signature sport of the Winter Olympics.
  — Greg Cote, miamiherald, 10 Jan. 2018
• That is why some EU governments want to use an imminent debate over the club’s multi-year budget to threaten their miscreant peers with the loss of funds.
  — The Economist, 5 Apr. 2018
• Once signed up, their Google account is only able to gather data from a few secure apps so that miscreants can’t get to their inbox or Google drive via them.
  — Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 17 Oct. 2017
• The plot turns on whether Mickey will prevail against an assortment of competitors and miscreants who want to relieve him of his profits.
  — Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 23 Jan. 2020
• At the time, China was regarded as miscreant numero uno.
  — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 23 Aug. 2017
• With enough blame to go around, The Black Keys -- and other artists thinking of using this same system -- would be wise to make sure their fan clubs are truly filled with fans, and not just miscreants and grifters looking to make a profit.
  — Dave Brooks, Billboard, 24 Sep. 2019
• One table is occupied by a gang of miscreants in softball jerseys.
  — Devra First, BostonGlobe.com, 12 July 2018
• The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed and chaos prevails over the attempt at order.
  — Town & Country, 4 Aug. 2023
• Angels and miscreants got in on the action, pushing and pulling, the Devil stretching out his hand and zapping everyone; God responded in kind.
  — Margaret Lyons, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2018

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024