miscreant
C2CEFR level
72/100Rarity: rare
FormalRegister
General noun
A person who behaves badly or unlawfully; a villain.
The night watchman collared the miscreants as they scaled the wall.
Law noun
A person who has committed a crime or wrongful act.
The magistrate had little sympathy for the miscreant standing before her for a third offence.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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