(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.
Trucker
Definition:
(n.) One who trucks; a trafficker.
Example Sentences:
(1) The US has stopped shipping military equipment out of Afghanistan , citing the risk to truckers from protests along part of the route in neighbouring Pakistan.
(2) On Thursday afternoon, Trump, seemingly oblivious to the announcement of the vote delay, met with a delegation of truckers at the White House, jumping into the cab of an 18-wheeler to pose for photographs, and telling them the vote was pressing ahead that night.
(3) This summation begins with a string of keywords: "trucker hats; undershirts called 'wifebeaters' worn as outerwear; the aesthetic of basement rec-room pornography, flash-lit Polaroids, fake wood panelling; Pabst Blue Ribbon ; 'porno' or 'paedophile' moustaches; aviator glasses; Americana T-shirts for church socials, etc; tube socks; the late albums of Johnny Cash produced by Rick Rubin ; and tattoos."
(4) The hipster men of LA have a similarly fixed uniform: one afternoon I went to a museum and found myself watching a David Hockney installation with three thirtysomething guys all dressed in black, all wearing tedious trucker caps and all with ZZ Top beards.
(5) Built like a truck, and as dishevelled as a trucker, he used his frame and his unkemptness with immense dexterity.
(6) The call center staff, the taxi drivers and the truckers.
(7) That’s why it is so urgent that the countries of Europe adopt very strong policies that will end the people smuggling trade across the Mediterranean.” While Hopkins was more concerned to appeal to the readership of “brilliant British truckers” who get fined if they’re caught with “feral humans” clinging to the chassis all the way from Calais, it’s only a matter of time before Abbott’s advice is taken up, and cruelty is presented as the only way to prevent further loss of life in the Med.
(8) Meanwhile, it has emerged that thousands of truckers are preparing to go head-to-head with the army in support of striking tanker drivers if the industrial action goes ahead.
(9) The covert operation began with two months of on-the-ground surveillance to identify the routines of the truckers, from where they ate and refuelled their vehicles to the river ferries and bridges they had to cross.
(10) Britain ‘poised to open door to thousands of migrant children’ Read more Richard Burnett, the Road Haulage Association’s chief executive, said the problems facing British truckers in Calais had become routine as he called for urgent action.
(11) Unite sources dismissed claims by Andrew Spence, the haulier who led a crippling fuel blockade 12 years ago, that thousands of truckers were prepared to support a strike by tanker drivers.
(12) Five's Ice Road Truckers pulled in 1.4 million and an 8% share, also in the 8pm hour.
(13) It was as if a nationwide drug legalisation policy had been written by a teenager, a gangster, a redneck trucker and a Chinese chemist.
(14) An improvised cardboard sign, scrawled with "La Rochelle, SVP" worked its magic on a trucker named Olivier and I was soon rolling into this sophisticated old port, perched vertiginously in the cockpit of the 18-wheel juggernaut.
(15) Having established the forest trails used by the truckers, the activists then worked on the paper trail.
(16) US officials have responded by ordering truckers under US contract to park at holding areas inside Afghanistan.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Naomi Wolf, photographed last week at Stony Brook University, NY: ‘I was mad at my own leftwing tribe.’ Photograph: Christopher Lane for the Observer For eight years, under Obama, my audiences were libertarian cowboys and red-state truckers; members of the military and police forces, who were appalled by what they were witnessing; and even conservatives, worried about our legacy of freedom.
(18) We had to work opportunistically, waiting for the best moments when the truckers were [distracted], talking to someone.” Nine trackers were attached, generating thousands of GPS coordinates.
(19) It seems that Netflix appeals to a variety of demographics – parents with kids that need to be entertained, teens, couples, truckers who use it to pass the time while stuck at a truck stop.
(20) We have a great bill, and I think we have a very good chance,” he said, adding: “Obamacare has inflicted great pain on American truckers.