miscreant

adj

1. Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous.

   “How do we get fair treatment when confronting miscreant workers sometimes means no care at all?”

2. Holding an incorrect religious belief.

noun

1. One who has behaved badly, or illegally.

   “The teacher sent the miscreants to see the school principal.”

   “Thou art a Traitor, and a Miſcreant; Too good to be ſo, and too bad to liue, Since the more faire and chriſtall is the skie, The vglier ſeeme the cloudes that in it flye:”

2. One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain.

   “A meagre Catchpole hurries me to fail; No Miscreant, so remorseless, ever tore Thy Journals, Fog, or knock'd at Franklin's door”

3. One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever.

   “Now wil the Chriſtian miſcreants be glad, Ringing with ioy their ſuperſtitious belles: And making bonfires for my ouerthrow. But ere I die thoſe foule Idolaters Shall make me bonfires with their filthy bones, […]”

   “Arise thou cursed Miscreaunt, That hast with knightlesse guile and trecherous train Faire knighthood fowly shamed”

   “Before thine eyes, thou mild and blessed one, said he, half aloud, are these miscreants daring to hold their market, and trafficking in their hellish drugs”