Word Meanings - MISCREANT - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers. 2. One not restrained by Christian principles;
Additional info about word: MISCREANT
1. One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever. Spenser. De Quincey. Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God. Rivers. 2. One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch. Addison.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of MISCREANT)
- Caitiff
- Rascal
- miscreant
- rogue
- churl
- villain
- ruffian
- Curmudgeon
- Miscreant
- wretch
- rascal
- Knave
- Hogue
- cheat
- scoundrel
- Reprobate
- Castaway
- scapegrace
- scalawag
- Scoundrel
- Villain
- vagabond
- knave
- swindler
- reprobate
Possible antonyms: (opposite words of MISCREANT)
Related words: (words related to MISCREANT)
- COMMENDATOR
One who holds a benefice in commendam; a commendatary. Chalmers. - APPROVEDLY
So as to secure approbation; in an approved manner. - COMMENDER
One who commends or praises. - KNAVESS
A knavish woman. Carlyle. - RASCALITY
1. The quality or state of being rascally, or a rascal; mean trickishness or dishonesty; base fraud. 2. The poorer and lower classes of people. The chief heads of their clans with their several rascalities T. Jackson. - CHEATABLE
Capable of being cheated. - UNDECEIVE
To cause to be no longer deceived; to free from deception, fraud, fallacy, or mistake. South. - CHURL
husband; akin to D. karel, kerel, G. kerl, Dan. & Sw. karl, Icel. karl, and to the E. proper name Charles , and perh. 1. A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow - ROGUERY
1. The life of a vargant. 2. The practices of a rogue; knavish tricks; cheating; fraud; dishonest practices. 'Tis no scandal grown, For debt and roguery to quit the town. Dryden. 3. Arch tricks; mischievousness. - SWINDLER
One who swindles, or defrauds grossly; one who makes a practice of defrauding others by imposition or deliberate artifice; a cheat. Syn. -- Sharper; rogue. -- Swindler, Sharper. These words agree in describing persons who take unfair advantages. - GUIDEBOOK
A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc. - SCOUNDRELISM
The practices or conduct of a scoundrel; baseness; rascality. Cotgrave. - KNAVERY
Roguish or mischievous tricks. Shak. (more info) 1. The practices of a knave; petty villainy; fraud; trickery; a knavish action. This is flat knavery, to take upon you another man's name. Shak. 2. pl. - VAGABONDAGE
The condition of a vagabond; a state or habit of wandering about in idleness; vagrancy. - CASTAWAY
1. One who, or that which, is cast away or shipwrecked. 2. One who is ruined; one who has made moral shipwreck; a reprobate. Lest . . . when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway. 1 Cor. ix. 27. - SCAPEGRACE
A graceless, unprincipled person; one who is wild and reckless. Beaconsfield. - COMMENDATARY
One who holds a living in commendam. - APPROVEMENT
a confession of guilt by a prisoner charged with treason or felony, together with an accusation of his accomplish and a giving evidence against them in order to obtain his own pardon. The term is no longer in use; it corresponded to what is now - VILLAINOUS
1. Base; vile; mean; depraved; as, a villainous person or wretch. 2. Proceeding from, or showing, extreme depravity; suited to a villain; as, a villainous action. 3. Sorry; mean; mischievous; -- in a familiar sense. "A villainous trick of thine - APPROVE
approve, fr. L. approbare; ad + probare to esteem as good, approve, 1. To show to be real or true; to prove. Wouldst thou approve thy constancy Approve First thy obedience. Milton. 2. To make proof of; to demonstrate; to prove or show practically. - OUTVILLAIN
To exceed in villainy. - DISAPPROVE
1. To pass unfavorable judgment upon; to condemn by an act of the judgment; to regard as wrong, unsuitable, or inexpedient; to censure; as, to disapprove the conduct of others. 2. To refuse official approbation to; to disallow; to decline - ESCHEATOR
An officer whose duty it is to observe what escheats have taken place, and to take charge of them. Burrill. - BROGUES
Breeches. Shenstone.