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Ones who behave criminally or viciously.

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  • In light of the NFL's recent, highly publicized troubles with players, the Arena League's lack of miscreants is also refreshing.
  • I was expected to take decisive action - call the miscreants down or send them to the principal's office.
  • It conjured up the idea of miscreants concealed below, and meditating treachery; unscrupulous mutineers --
  • The very same men who are supposedly our defense against the miscreants are the very same miscreants we all find universally repulsive.
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