MISCREANT

Some miscreant stole the lovely and puffy and warm down jacket lent to me by the kind Heba out of my suitcase, when I was flying back to Tucson. Freeze, scumbag, freeze!

DEF:

Main Entry:	miscreant1
Part of Speech:	adj
Definition:	disbelieving; heretical
Etymology:	Middle French mes- 'mis-' + croire 'to believe'

Main Entry:	miscreant1
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	a disbeliever; heretic
Etymology:	Middle French mes- 'mis-' + croire 'to believe'

Main Entry:	miscreant2
Part of Speech:	adj
Definition:	depraved; behaving badly
Etymology:	Middle French mes- 'mis-' + croire 'to believe'

Main Entry:	miscreant2
Part of Speech:	n
Definition:	a scoundrel; reprobate
Etymology:	Middle French mes- 'mis-' + croire 'to believe'

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Contemporary synonym: SCUMBAG