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miscreant

/ˈmɪskrɪənt/
noun
1 A person who has done something wrong or unlawful.
1.1 archaic A heretic.

adjective
1 (of a person) behaving badly or unlawfully.
1.1 archaic Heretical.

Origin
Middle
English (as an adjective in the sense ‘disbelieving’): from Old French
mescreant, present participle of mescreire ‘disbelieve’, from mes-
‘mis-’ + creire ‘believe’ (from Latin credere).

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Mark was a mythic miscreant, passing through the world with no belief in the law. He saw all of his actions as pure and selfish. What else, he felt, should one do?

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