miscreants

英 [ˈmɪskrɪənts]

美 [ˈmɪskriənts]

n.  缺德的人; 不法之徒
miscreant的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 不法之徒;恶棍;歹徒
  Amiscreantis someone who has done something illegal or behaved badly.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• They ensured good behaviour by having miscreants publicly flogged.
  确保运动员们行为得体，并对犯规者施以公开鞭打。
• Those miscreants will not trouble your establishment again.
  这些恶棍不会再给你的公司找麻烦了。
• In pretty much every case, that is enough: jail sentences need not carry on rising exponentially in length to keep potential miscreants in line.
  在几乎每一个案件中，这种判决足矣：刑期不必呈指数增长，才能让那些潜在的罪犯者规矩起来。
• Instead of shedding it, Fink says, "they should have purged the miscreants from the news of the world and brought in a credible and respectable team of journalists to right the ship."
  芬克表示：“他们应该消除丑闻造成的影响，并招贤纳士，促使其重新步入正轨，而不是将其停刊。”
• The penalties for dropping litter are too low to discourage miscreants.
  对乱扔杂物的处罚太轻无法惩喊无赖。
• THE criminal-justice system is often accused of going easy on miscreants.
  刑事司法系统往往被指责对那些歹徒太客气了。
• My first query – whether miscreants are likely to answer incriminating questions truthfully – is one nearly every visa applicant asks.
  我的第一个疑问：邪恶分子有没有可能如实回答关于犯罪的问题？这也是几乎每个签证申请者会问的问题。
• The department also tries to make an example of some miscreants. The crowd chanted "Down with the corruptionists."
  该机构也试图对一些腐败者罚一儆百。群众有节奏地反复呼喊着“打倒腐败者。”
• She had reported to us that she was tired of the smell of piss of the miscreants whose taste is to avoid the adjacent public toilets, wafting through the cracks in her house.
  她已经跟我们说过，她极其厌恶为了避过公厕而在她家外尿尿的混混儿，那些气味通过墙上的裂缝飘进了她的家。
• In a new place you do not, and miscreants sense your hesitation.
  在一个新地方你不会知道这些，而歹徒会感觉到你的犹豫。