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Перевод: miscreant

[прилагательное]
еретический;
[существительное]
негодяй ; злодей ; еретик

Тезаурус:

1. He called it Boozebusters and the idea was that wives (and more rarely, husbands) who were fed up with their partner's non-stop round of office parties would hire a Boozebuster squad to snatch the miscreant from the pub, or wine-bar or restaurant or even the office itself at a pre-arranged time.
2. To make the comparison fair, we should have to assume that built into each typist's chair is a gun, wired up so that if he makes a mistake he is summarily shot, his place being taken by a reserve typist (squeamish readers may prefer to imagine a spring-loaded ejector seat gently catapulting miscreant typists out of the line, but the gun gives a more realistic picture of natural selection).
3. The angered Brown Man will then push the miscreant into a nearby stream or pool, pelt him with leaves and twigs, and abandon him to contemplate his crime.
4. Thor cornered a knife-wielding miscreant in a small wood and, when joined by handler Derek Williams, stopped the ne'er-do-well stabbing his human mate several times.
5. Claims (for what they may be worth) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm, to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed: In the following cases; namely- (a) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it; and (b) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person, and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm; the firm is liable to make good the loss.
6. Books and other references sources can be extremely useful and I've found the staff at most libraries very helpful that is, once they've been persuaded that they are not dealing with an imaginative miscreant!
7. Apology, in other words, is aimed at convincing anyone interested that the miscreant recognises his fault, and by that token alone, is to be regarded as someone whose typical tendency is to observe the conventions.
8. Proving that a contravention has occurred, even if only on the balance of probabilities, will not be easy, nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention.
9. Think, for example, of the ineffectual Oxbridge dons portrayed by Evelyn Waugh in Brideshead Revisited; the miscreant, Welsh, history teacher, Jim Dixon, in Kingsley Amis's Lucky Jim; the snooty but endearing Professor Higgins in George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, transferred to the screen as My Fair Lady; Albert Corde, the Chicago college dean, stranded in Bucharest, in Saul Bellow's The Dean's December; Henry Wilt, the polytechnic English lecturer, dinning Eng.
10. I shall tell him that we have every reason to believe that the bomber was carrying a smuggled explosive device aboard, that its detonation was triggered by a radio wave and that we have the miscreant responsible in our hands.
11. To her amazement (and do doubt his) he turned out to be her miscreant husband.
12. Any amount paid to the court under s.61 is to be paid out, or to be distributed, among such persons as the court may direct, being a person or persons appearing to the court to have entered into transactions with the miscreant.
13. Is he aware that on a previous occasion when such an attempt was made, the miscreant - an imposter named Lambert Simnel, who attempted to steal the red rose from King Henry VII - was not only defeated but sentenced to serve as a scullion in the royal kitchens?