Adjective: miscreant
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more miscreant |
| Superlative | most miscreant |
Sample Sentences
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How do we get fair treatment when confronting miscreant workers sometimes means no care at all? [1983 December 24, Cindy Patton, “AIDS: Putting the Pieces Together”, in Gay Community News, volume 11, number 23, page 3:]
Adjectives inflected like miscreant
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English myscreaunt, miscreaunt, from Old French mescreant (1080) "mis-believer", present participle of mescreire "to misbelieve" (modern mécroire). Cognate with French mécréant. See: French Adjectives '
mécréant'.
Verbs referencing "miscreant"
French Adjectives
mécréant.