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Definition of Miscreants
1. miscreant [n] - See also: miscreant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Miscreants
Literary usage of Miscreants
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Life on the Mississippi by Mark Twain (1883)
"MANUFACTURES AND miscreants. WHERE the river, in the Vicksburg region, used to
be corkscrewed, it is now comparatively straight—made so by cut-off; ..."
2. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"It is hoped the remainder of those miscreants, now in our possession, will meet
with a punishment adequate to their crimes/ During the execution, ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical History of England and Normandy by Ordericus Vitalis, Léopold Delisle, Guizot (François) (1854)
"The miscreants who succeeded them in their habitation suffered, as they deserved,
many calamities ; fires, massacres, and numberless other miseries, ..."
4. History of English Literature by Hippolyte Taine (1880)
"Meanwhile ladies are wandering in the midst of forests, on white palfreys, exposed
to the assaults of miscreants, now guarded by a lion which follows them, ..."
5. The History of Irish Periodical Literature: From the End of the 17th to the by Richard Robert Madden (1867)
"All the miscreants of this class of venal scribes, strange to say, talk and write
in the same unnatural, unreliable manner, that inspires feelings of ..."
6. A Complete Word and Phrase Concordance to the Poems and Songs of Robert by J. B. Reid (1889)
"By miscreants torn, who ne'er one sprig must wear : Wha rate the wearer by the
cloak,. . To Mr. J. Kennedy. Wearied. And Ia bird to shelter there, ..."
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