• (British, America) enPR: mĭsʹkrē-ənt, IPA: /ˈmɪs.kɹi.ənt/

miscreant

1. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
2. (theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.

• German: gewissenloser Mensch, Übeltäter, Schurke
• Russian: развращённый

• French: mécréant
• German: Ungläubiger, Ketzer
• Russian: еретический

miscreant (plural miscreants)

1. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
   • 1595 December 9 (first known performance)​​, William Shakespeare, “The life and death of King Richard the Second”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i], page 23 ↗, column 1–2:

     Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant;
     Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue,
     Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie,
     The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:

   The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.

2. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
3. (theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

   • Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt,

     That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train

     Faire knighthood fowly shamed

   • Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.

• See also Thesaurus:troublemaker
• See also Thesaurus:villain

• Spanish: facineroso

• French: mécréant, mécréante
• German: Missetäter, Missetäterin