Fugitive vs Miscreant - What's the difference?
fugitive | miscreant | Related terms |
A person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution.
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*:“I don't mean all of your friends—only a small proportion—which, however, connects your circle with that deadly, idle, brainless bunch—the insolent chatterers at the opera,the speed-mad fugitives from the furies of ennui, the neurotic victims of mental cirrhosis, the jewelled animals whose moral code is the code of the barnyard—!”
fleeing or running away
transient, fleeting or ephemeral
elusive or difficult to retain
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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Fugitive is a related term of miscreant.
As nouns the difference between fugitive and miscreant
is that fugitive is a person who is fleeing or escaping from something, especially prosecution while miscreant is one who has behaved badly, or illegally.As adjectives the difference between fugitive and miscreant
is that fugitive is fleeing or running away while miscreant is lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.fugitive
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(wikipedia fugitive)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)miscreant
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Alternative forms
* miscreaunt (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Noun
(en noun)- The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.
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- Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants , but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.