Desperado vs Miscreant - What's the difference?
desperado | miscreant | Related terms |
A bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the Wild West.
*1850 , (Thomas Carlyle), (Latter-Day Pamphlets)'', ''The present time
*1918 , (Willa Cather), (My Antonia) , Mirado Modern Classics, paperback edition, page 6
*:Surely this was the face of a desperado .
(chess) A piece that seems determined to give itself up, typically to bring about stalemate or perpetual check.
Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.
(theology) Holding an incorrect religious belief.
One who has behaved badly, or illegally.
One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.
(theology) One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.
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Desperado is a related term of miscreant.
As nouns the difference between desperado and miscreant
is that desperado is a bold outlaw, especially one from southern portions of the wild west while miscreant is one who has behaved badly, or illegally.As an adjective miscreant is
lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.desperado
English
Noun
(en-noun)- The kind of persons who excite or give signal to — students, young men of letters […], or fierce and justly bankrupt desperadoes , acting everywhere on the discontent of the millions and blowing it into flame, — might give rise to reflections as to the character of our epoch.
miscreant
English
Alternative forms
* miscreaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.
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- (Spenser)
- (De Quincey)
- Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants , but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.