How To Use Miscreant In A Sentence

Another timid miscreant, just before he is sent off to prison, has so far stepped out of reality and into legend that he asks to be known hereafter as ‘The Lonesome Kid’.
Local people demanded that the District Magistrate apprehend the miscreants.
It's been a long time since such a collection of punks, misfits and miscreants gathered together to worship such an influential act.
I envisioned a young squirt of an elf, say just a sprightly 100 or 200 years, slipping out to meet his miscreant pals, grab a leaf and ride a wind current.
So he drave out to Miriam, who ran at him with the best of her skill and charged him with the goodliness of her cleverness and her courage and her cunning in fence and cavalarice, crying to him, “O accursed, O enemy of Allah and the Moslems, I will assuredly send thee after thy brothers and woeful is the abiding-place of the Miscreants!” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night

Its streets attracted the villains and miscreants who would otherwise be widely dispersed.
A half-admiring, half-nervous public quickly dubbed his swaggering and very personal style of government the Dadis Show, which was the name of a television programme in which the captain himself questioned and berated miscreants. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
The compartments have the added protection of three to four cross-bars running through all the bogies - to prevent robbery, snatching or the entry of miscreants through the window.
It is to be hoped that this miscreant youth has learnt his lesson.
Whole sections of records, equivalent to decades of time, may be missing due to miscreant scribes, fires in libraries, or national upheavals leading to disruptions in official diary keeping; these are like sections of cloth missing.
It's easy to notice that these miscreants are overwhelmingly white, educated, and well-heeled enough to sink enormous expense and labor into realizing a few days of whimsy and weirdness.
Back, thou wretch, to meet thy brother miscreants, who are hastening hitherward. Anne of Geierstein
The CIM has deplored the incident as an uncalled for provocation by the miscreants.
If the agreement is broken, the miscreant can expect a severe tongue-lashing from the other riders.
The result of this animalisation was the disempowering of homeless people through their representation as incoherent babbling drunks, the wild, drug crazed miscreants and the ‘feral’ runaways.
In societies, there are freeloaders, scammers, and other miscreants.
The case was then handed over the Foreign Crime Suppression Unit, which sent a team of officers in search for the miscreant Iraqi.
Thanks to the tireless enforcers of Darwinian purity necessary and time wasting efforts of actual hard working scientists responding to an unconscionable attack on honest scholarship by a sine nobilis, bibliolatrous bunch of cultural miscreants. No more coffee for Mr Witt - The Panda's Thumb
We are repeatedly told in the Torah that murderers - and certain other miscreants - should be put to death so that the community can be purged of their contaminating presence.
JAIPUR: A man and his wife were seriously injured when armed miscreants attacked them with iron rods and fled with cash and jewellery worth several lakhs of rupees from their house in Bhagat colony under the Bassi police station in Jaipur district during wee hours on Wednesday. The Times of India
Some towns in Russia employ trolley police with powers to fine miscreants or issue persistent trolley thieves with life-bans from the store.
Now France risks being dumped from the premier league to join fiscal miscreants in the lower ranks. Times, Sunday Times
The enthusiasm for such measures reflects American frustration with crime and young miscreants, some experts say.
This is how the great criminals and miscreants of the world get started.
A few recalled memorable collective punishment: a whole class getting caned, one by one, for substandard academic performance, or because one miscreant declined to come forward. Archbishop wrestles with doubts on school paddling
Only the coterie of failed academics and other talentless miscreants who populate the "curatorial" and institutional world of contemporary art believe that there's ever been a "line between art and commerce" in the post-Medieval world. Challenging the line between art and commerce is cute until it's not cute.
The allegations reflect the latest wrinkle in a practice known as swatting, in which miscreants use caller ID spoofing to falsely report emergencies to authorities with the goal of eliciting a response from law enforcement officials, who sometimes are deployed from SWAT, or special weapons and tactics units. The Register
Whenever this occurred the discovery of a fresh outrage was sure to follow, but, so far, the miscreants had succeeded in baffling not only the police, but also the many farm hands who had formed themselves into a band of volunteer watchmen, determined to bring the cattle maimers to justice. Lady Molly of Scotland Yard
She agreed that the scoundrels should be jailed - just like, she added, miscreant priests and their duplicitous protectors among the bishops.
Reports suggest he has had occasion to shed the gentlemanly demeanour and give miscreants a good dressing-down.
The act of Bastinado, generally used to punish miscreants but also to elicit answers from torture victims, extends back through history hundreds of years.
After the revelation of the study to the institute's staff, five potentially lost teaspoons were recovered from miscreant hoarders.
If he sees, for example, that a wrongdoer has genuinely repented and that no good would come of forcing the miscreant to do jail time, he'll suspend his sentence.
I keep a vigilant watch but did not see any crimes being committed or miscreants around the premises.
Mercifully, just when a major surgical procedure looked inevitable for the miscreant toddler, Mr Scott had a flash of inspiration.
This meant that a miscreant official could be protected from justice by the head of his department.
The laws must be tightened to allow proper pressure to be brought to bear on miscreants. Times, Sunday Times
Such acts usually heralded the coming of thieves, murderers or some other class of miscreants trying to hide from something.
The sibling miscreants were in the grasp of the relentless and merciless Jack Clarke.
Urban miscreants love to steal public works equipment.
In our understandable anger at the disgraceful and sickening behaviour of a small number of miscreants, we must not abandon norms of fairness and justice.
These weapons form the backbone of every kind of miscreant organisation, from local gangs to organised crime to terrorist organisations.
The laws must be tightened to allow proper pressure to be brought to bear on miscreants. Times, Sunday Times
If these were wanton act of miscreants, one incident that took place inside the Government Medical College campus on Thursday has proved that even the literates are not bothered to ‘rescue’ a roadside tree from being consumed by flames.
The miscreants who had boarded the vessel had apparently been all over her in search of anything that might be worth carrying away, and, among other places, they had explored the lazarette, which lay beneath the cabin, a small hatchway just abaft the mizenmast giving access to it. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship
Criminal investigation officers planned a sting operation to catch the young miscreants following numerous complaints.
They may have 2 seats in the European Parliament (a huge talking shop with no real power) but I'm counting the hours until OLAF start telling us how venal and shoite the incompetent misbegotten retromingent miscreants of the BNP really are. Army Rumour Service
It just goes to prove that, while the most miscreant man can be terrifically terrorizing, watching a simple movie made about him can be equally torturous.
She had never seen so many assassins and miscreants gathered together under the same banner in order to annihilate someone.
But she could hardly fail to see the point when McDonald expressed his discomfort at passing miscreants micturating in his minimalist letter box.
The two miscreant youths confessed to police that they had committed almost another dozen such robberies without capture.
Scenting liberal _backshish_, he promised absolute secrecy for the affair, coupled with soothing assurances of private vengeance upon the surviving miscreants. The Lighted Match
I keep a vigilant watch but did not see any crimes being committed or miscreants around the premises.
Despite his protestations, the authorities have wisely decided to cage the miscreant youth.
The miscreant was traced and brought round for a stern talking to.
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.
In ancient Assyria, such miscreants were gibbeted, or impaled between the legs, on the sharp top of a pole planted upright in the ground, their screams heard for miles as their own body weight slowly drove the stake into them until they died. Obama's military victory.
There is a collection of these miscreants - Heath identifies file formats, disk formats and install scripts as notable examples.
And there are other causes to which sums raised from financial miscreants might have been put. Times, Sunday Times
It's for your own good, and for the good of society, that dangerous and twisted individuals such as this miscreant student are incarcerated.
If miscreants persisted in their illegal activity despite this warning they could be prosecuted.
What's more, they're probably so pleased to see someone when a burglar comes, they wag their tail and show the miscreant around the house!
I can still remember "our" nun, Sister Carmela, a drill sergeant of a woman, wimpled and veiled, with long swishy robes and a lethal black crucifix hanging from a hidden string of rosary beads, which she used with Terminator precision to punish miscreants. Me and Sister Carmela
Zik! and hast fallen into straits unique and hast strayed from the way didst seek, O Miscreant and Zindík, [FN#292] and naught shall avail thee at this present or brother or friend veridigue or familiar freke. Arabian nights. English
We need tougher penalties to discourage miscreants.
Police set out on a manhunt, armed with an accurate description and the make and model of the car the miscreant gigolo was driving.
Whether it was the voice and countenance of Mr. Tyson, or the terror of the word gallows, that affected the miscreant, his arm suddenly fell, and he stood as if struck dumb with amazement. A Visit to the United States in 1841
These weedy fly-bitten popinjays, these pribbling clumsy clay-brained miscreants - how dare they think they can share the same job title as me?
The courts were erected in 1835 and the façade with its pillared portico was a brutal statement of power designed to strike fear into the hearts of would-be miscreants who might suffer the full weight of a harsh penal code.
The United States advocated war crimes tribunals against foreign miscreants abroad while opposing an international criminal court that might hold our own officials accountable.
However, while you rightly disapprove of these miscreant civilians, you will be impressed to learn that, on Saturday 25th, while proceeding in a westerly direction down the High Street, I threw myself in front of a speeding motorist.
Once great, that is, until you miscreants polluted it with your lies, your greed, andyour absolute disrespect ... Goodbye! And thanks for all the fish!
Not even his roguish, cutthroat crew of miscreants would do that.
Lord Adair Turner, chairman of the U.K. Financial Services Authority, this week delivered a headmasterly lecture to the miscreant schoolboys who created this mess. The Return of the 'Governor's Eyebrows'
The programme used to have a fair mix of topics, but is now way too reliant on news and the carpeting of national miscreants.
“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.” Count Robert of Paris
Bandits and other miscreants roamed the dirt track after sundown, waiting for a horseman to come along so they could ambush him.
Not even his roguish, cutthroat crew of miscreants would do that.
But being in charge of a team that included known dysfunctional miscreants was hardly news to him.
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.
This miscreant lives unnoticed, in a little village near Paris, upon a slender income, which he has made in trade, not in the _trade of blood_; for it appears that Robespierre was not a very liberal patron of his servants. The Stranger in France or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.
I saw herds of ticket inspectors on the route catching unticketed miscreants during the first week of operation but I've not seen any since.
The four youths, each 17 years old were arrested in a crackdown on miscreant racers.
Jared sat down across from his miscreant son, feeling drained and exhausted and not very happy at all.
Fu-Manchu is back, and he has added to his collection of marauding monkey-like miscreants, and obtained a baboon killer. Archive 2007-03-01
She was on the first floor, after all, and it would not do if Nana found out she was going to talk to the miscreant sailors she was so pitted against.
It encapsulates the view of pre-teens as miscreant mouth breathers only capable of cursing, not thinking.
Of course, there is the occasional miscreant standing in front of the classroom who encourages student failure as a backhanded compliment to his self-declared high standards.
In Swat they are called either miscreants or antistatic insurgents fighting against the state but in Kurram the issue is labeled as sectarian and the warriors are not insurgents but are called Jehadis. Global Voices in English » Pakistan: Prachinar, The Valley Of Death
He realized that, unless he was somehow able to screen out the miscreants, he would be spending all his time policing the area.
If you the sleeplessly cartwheel as it is, you viscacha, in my retinal, an numbfish to miscreant the observingly sheldrake foraminifera steinbeck. tensity ellipsoidal, disobediently kubrick, from cold aegilops ballroom to hoist, to streptokinase, to dextrality with jabberwocky fibrin and guardant cliquishness. Rational Review
IT was a tale of two Tories this week over how we punish our young miscreants. The Sun
But their forces seem no less accountable than, say, the miscreant UN contingents serving in Congo, and they would certainly be more effective.
Bentley having spoken thus, Scaliger, bestowing him a sour look, “Miscreant prater!” said he, The Battle of the Books
The miscreants had reportedly made their entry through the front of the house.
This would increase the credibility of being a political donor and the public could punish any miscreants at a general election. Times, Sunday Times
Unfortunately, that means it could attract the wrong sort of attention from ne'er-do-wells and miscreants.
Police scoured the city, eventually finding and detaining the miscreant pair.
Suppose, having escaladed the outer wall, the miscreants take a fancy to storm the castle? Roundabout Papers
And so the miscreants trooped back home to Bean Street, perhaps to bandage the wounds of their neighbourly dispute.
Of the world's ample types of miscreant — the hypocrite, the lecher, the glutton, the miser, the charlatan and many others — my preference is overwhelmingly for the charlatan. Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver
At a time when the public is calling for the heads of corporate miscreants, you would have thought that the latest Census Bureau report on poverty and income would be great campaign fodder for Democrats.
Now, both in football and business terms, the practical person in us cannot blame Shepherd for not sacking the miscreants, even if the principled part demands them being cast out.
The tracing of terrorists, murderers, swindlers, child-molesters and the whole motley bunch of miscreants who flit back and forth across international borders had a higher priority.
To be sure, discord is not good, but one might suggest that honest disagreement among bishops is a healthy thing, not least in holding negligent and miscreant brothers to account.
It's certainly possible that Dad pulled strings because he wanted to teach his miscreant son a lesson.
The miscreant's neighbours plaintively tell Ferris they can no longer continue to live in the atmosphere of menace that the young man seems to generate.
Given that the reader cannot wade through five pages without an account of some miscreant grabbing her presumably callipygous posterior, one has wonder if appropriate clothing may have protected her rear flank. C. Christine Fair: Baffled by The Taliban Shuffle
Thenceforth, for a week, the Young Manchus meant to separate, revert to Chinese costume, live in Chinese boardinghouses in the East End, and thus utterly mislead and bamboozle the police, who, in their hunt for the miscreants, would be searching for Chinamen in European dress and living in European style. Number Seventeen
With great respect to Hedges for his magnificent thought and writing, it won't help all that much to scold miscreant liberals, unless the causes of their miscreance are addressed. AlterNet.org Main RSS Feed
Despite lurid tales of the Russian mafia, they have far bigger fish to fry than tourists, so miscreants are no more than the petty chancers you'd meet in any Western city.
Volumes could be written about this phase of his dazzling career alone, and yet we have miscreants such as Talleyrand proclaiming to the Conference of "Christian Kings" and traitors that the greatest, most powerful, and most humane prince of the age "must be exterminated like a mad dog. The Tragedy of St. Helena
Despite apologising and claiming, ‘I didn't mean anything by it,’ the miscreant was summarily ejected from the premises.
I shall not close this, till I have seen or heard from the vile miscreant who has involved a worthy family in wretchedness! The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact

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