miscreant

英式音标：miscreant怎么读

美式音标：miscreant怎么读

词汇归类： GRE

近义词： dog,creature,gangster

miscreant词义

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adj. 异端的；邪道的；极恶的n. 异端；恶棍；罪大恶极之人

复数: miscreants;

miscreant 恶棍，歹徒，不法之徒

来自古法语mescreant,信仰错误的人，不信基督的人，来自mis-,坏的，错的，-cre,信仰，信任，词源同credo,heart,credible.引申词义非基督徒，异教徒，不忠之人，后用于指恶棍，歹徒等。比较 heathen,pagan.

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1. How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.: 在目前这股热潮中,对那些不道德的记者指指戳戳是多么的容易.

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miscreant: miscreant: see creed
miscreant (adj.): c. 1300, "non-Christian, pagan, infidel;" early 15c., "heretical, unbelieving," from Old French mescreant "disbelieving" (Modern French mécréant), from mes- "wrongly" (see mis- (2)) + creant, present participle of creire "believe," from Latin credere (see credo). Meaning "villainous" is from 1590s.
miscreant (n.): late 14c., "heathen, Saracen," from miscreant (adj.) or from Old French mescreant, which also had a noun sense of "infidel, pagan, heretic." Sense of "villain" first recorded 1590 in Spenser.

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Local people demanded that the District Magistrate apprehend the miscreants.: 当地人要求地方法官逮捕那些歹徒。

How easy it has been in this febrile atmosphere to point the finger at miscreant journalists.: 在目前这股热潮中,对那些不道德的记者指指戳戳是多么的容易.