(n.) One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
(n.) One not restrained by Christian principles; an unscrupulous villain; a while wretch.
(a.) Holding a false religious faith.
(a.) Destitute of conscience; unscrupulous.
Example Sentences:
(1) Like the US government following revelations from Abu Ghraib, the British government wants to dismiss the miscreants as the deviant wrongdoers in an otherwise noble cause.
(2) The wretched miscreants that swamp Quinn, Sarkeesian and others with vile threats every time they post a video, a story or a tweet, have come to symbolise community.
(3) The theory was that cracking down on petty crimes would discourage miscreants from committing bigger ones.
(4) As for the bravado-filled email exchanges between traders, they seem on a par: Barclays' miscreants dealt in bottles of Bollinger; the taste at RBS was for steak and sushi.
(5) Corcoran grinned and cycled off, resuming the hunt for miscreants.
(6) "It seems that innocent civilians are once again are at the mercy of miscreants."
(7) Take the "human flesh search engines" – internet users who band together to track down and expose miscreants, such as abusive officials.
(8) It could simply withhold government work from any miscreant banks (or other businesses).
(9) "The technical trail is indelible – it has the fingerprints of the miscreant all over it.
(10) Miscreants stopped the bus, broke the windows and … then hurled petrol bombs,” said Karmokar, 22, who was being treated for burns to his face and hands at Dhaka medical hospital.
(11) Bluebaby: - "Can I just say that if anyone near me starts playing a vuevuezela at Stamford Bridge next season, I shall take it off them, upend it to use as a an enema funnel and administer a dose of hot Bovril to the miscreant."
(12) The move provoked a cacophony of calls for honours to be stripped from other miscreant bankers, politicians and regulators.
(13) Official rhetoric is sectarian and blames foreign and Islamist armed miscreants for the violence.
(14) They would entail inspection rights, demands for firmer data on rate-setting practices, rather than the widespread use of estimates, and powers to fine miscreants.
(15) The US actor is also expected to reprise her role as musician Dana Barrett in a forthcoming third Ghostbusters movie in which her on-screen son will battle the series' trademark spooky miscreants.
(16) In "Left Foot Forward", his "political blog for progressives", Master Straw boldly misrepresents one of the miscreant's pieces, in order to attract new signatories to the "stop Liddle" campaign and thus protect our wives and servants.
(17) He often blames developments he dislikes on the so-called “parallel state” supposedly made up of traitors, misfits and miscreants, more often than not in league with Fethullah Gülen, an exiled former ally and fellow Islamist with whom he is now involved in a long-running feud .
(18) Particularly as the parade of miscreants through US courts, and new revelations, continue.
(19) The local press blamed the fires on “miscreants” from nearby communities.
(20) While these two miscreants obviously are guilty of losing control – banged to rights on video – one or two of those who live alongside them and make a good living with them might like to ask themselves when they forgot their manners, when they strayed into the Land Of No Consequences.
Restrain
Definition:
(v. t.) To draw back again; to hold back from acting, proceeding, or advancing, either by physical or moral force, or by any interposing obstacle; to repress or suppress; to keep down; to curb.
(v. t.) To draw back toghtly, as a rein.
(v. t.) To hinder from unlimited enjoiment; to abridge.
(v. t.) To limit; to confine; to restrict.
(v. t.) To withhold; to forbear.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cantact placing reaction times were measured in cats which were either restrained in a hammock or supported in a conventional way.
(2) It was hypothesized that compensatory restraining influences of surrounding soft tissues prevented a more severe facial malformation from occurring.
(3) After restrained least-squares refinement of the enzyme-substrate complex with the riboflavin omitted from the model, additional electron density appeared near the pyrophosphate, which indicated the presence of an ADPR molecule in the FAD binding site of PHBH.
(4) During collection, the rat was restrained in a plastic holder where it was free to eat.
(5) He could be the target of more punishing wit, as when Michael Foot, noting a tendency to be tougher abroad than at home, called him "a belligerent Bertie Wooster without even a Jeeves to restrain him."
(6) The apparatus consists of three basic components; a set of 4 strain gauge platforms on which the quadruped is trained to stand, a restraining device to keep the animal positioned over the strain gauge platforms and two mobile plates which mechanically stimulate the left or the right forelimb to produce the placing movement.
(7) The proposed new law gives victims of violence access to redress and protection, including restraining orders, and it requires local governments to set up more shelters.
(8) The structure of Mn(III) superoxide dismutase (Mn(III)SOD) from Thermus thermophilus, a tetramer of chains 203 residues in length, has been refined by restrained least-squares methods.
(9) These linkages could functionally restrain or assist in homeostatically restoring organelles to their normal position after the rearrangement that accompanies the substantial shortening of smooth muscle cells.
(10) A full-body restraining device was constructed that permits the short-term recording of physiologic data (respiration, electrocardiogram, arterial blood pressure, and electroencephalogram) in unanesthetized rats.
(11) For example, a majority of the respondents (82.2%) believed that it was appropriate to keep a patient restrained lying flat in bed.
(12) The reduced Hill coefficients and enhanced oxygen affinity are assumed to be due to impairment of the inter-chain contacts, to restrained cooperative mobility, and heterogeneity of the coupling products.
(13) The mean body temperature of restrained toms declined during the first 150 min of RE and then stabilized.
(14) Today, I am working clinically with Sam*, who moved to Dimensions from an assessment and treatment unit where he was often physically restrained to prevent incidents of aggression.
(15) Out of the total of 333 deaths, 87 people had been restrained, most commonly being physically held down by officers.
(16) We also examined the effect of an external restraining force on tibial subluxation in the ACL deficient knee.
(17) There was no significant difference between apparent pA2 values of unstressed and restrained rats using pA2 regression line analysis.
(18) Perhaps an independent Scotland would offer a restrained alternative to Westminster's current slash and burn.
(19) For training, head restrained animals were oscillated on a turntable in front of an optokinetic pattern projected onto a cylindrical wall.
(20) Significant increases in Tre were observed in the no-behaviour and the semi-restrained groups during cold exposure.