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)

• Enlighten
• guide
• remunerate
• compensate
• undeceive
• disabuse
• Sanction
• commend
• approve

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.