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Example sentences for: miscreants
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Forcing miscreants to attend high school is pure folly, based on three untruths: 1) any kid can be taught; 2) dropping out will turn a kid toward crime; and 3) without a high-school education you can't get a decent job.
Over the past 24 hours, authorities on two of America's most distant shores handed down punishments to two miscreants, Capt.
Times . "1) publicly disparage all investigators as partisan miscreants, as Clinton now does; 2) encourage co-conspirators to resist prosecutorial pressure by arranging for hush money; and 3) hint at post-election pardons."
In much the same way, categorical denials have suffered an irreversible erosion of face value, owing to their routine issuance by bombastic politicians, aggrieved miscreants, and representatives of liberation armies and international terrorists.
(The trick works both ways: Actual miscreants confess to having created an appearance of impropriety, thus sidestepping the little matter of impropriety itself.)