英语词汇“miscreant”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词	miscreant
释义	miscreant (once / 2945 pages) n A miscreant is a person who is bad––who lies, breaks the law, yells at small puppies. It's a somewhat old-fashioned word, popular with old ladies shocked at having their purses stolen at the opera. Miscreant, like lout, lecher, good-for-nothing — they're the words proper people use to condemn the improper. Improper people consult an entirely different thesaurus of condemnation, perhaps familiar to you but not possible to quote from in this PG-rated word blurb. VOCABULARY SHOUT-OUT Another "Miscreant" Sighting A few weeks ago, we noted the unusual miscreant having its day as a descriptor for Chris Christie in coverage of politically motivated George Washington Bridge lane closures. Now, we've just spotted this rare bird again. In Sunday's New York Times, investigative reporter and Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World author William D. Cohan used it to describe the wolf of The Wolf of Wall Street fame, Jordan Belfort. Maybe it's those five Oscar nominations for "The Wolf of Wall Street," including for best picture, best director and best actor, but we seem to be in another of those moments in popular culture when Hollywood plies us with skewed answers about how Wall Street miscreants caused so much mayhem. Astute vocabularians have likely already connected the Christie-Wolf dots to ferret out miscreant's meaning. It's a person who is bad, and not in the gray-area kind of way. The word's for law breakers, candy-from-baby stealers, and the guy who hits you up at a parent's funeral for a loan. Miscreant's meaning might seem curious to morphology fans who recognize the Latin root "cred-" or "believe" inside the word. What do "being bad" and "believing" have in common? To connect those dots, we need to travel back to the 14th century, when miscreant first appeared in English. Then, it meant "non-believer" or "heretic," which, in those religion-heavy times, were synonymous with "lowest of the low." Now, an absence of religious belief is tolerated, even if the behavior of miscreants rarely is. WORD FAMILY miscreant: miscreants USAGE EXAMPLES The judiciary, a clerical bastion, still defiantly insists on sentencing miscreants according to the old calendar. Economist(Dec 15, 2016) In its statement, it called Shiites “miscreants” and said, “What awaits them in the immediate future, Allah permitting, is more sorrowful and bitter.” New York Times(Nov 24, 2016) Tech- and media-savvy bad guys go up against that most humble of miscreants: a pickpocket. New York Times(Nov 17, 2016) n a person without moral scruples Syn\|Hypo\|Hyper reprobate degenerate, deviant, deviate, pervert a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior black sheep, scapegrace a reckless and unprincipled reprobate wretch performs some wicked deed fetishist one who engages in fetishism (especially of a sexual nature) masochist someone who obtains pleasure from receiving punishment nympho, nymphomaniac a woman with abnormal sexual desires child molester, paederast, pederast a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner paedophile, pedophile an adult who is sexually attracted to children sadist someone who obtains pleasure from inflicting pain or others sadomasochist someone who enjoys both sadism and masochism lech, lecher, letch, satyr man with strong sexual desires offender, wrongdoer a person who transgresses moral or civil law
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