🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

恶棍

Pronunciation / Transliteration: è gǔn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Miscreant/ˈmɪskriənt/
nounadjectiveCEFR C1 (Advanced)Top #28450 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"警察最终抓住了这个恶棍。"

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1 sense
As noun
  1. 1

    A person who has done something wrong or unlawful.

    "The police finally caught the miscreant who had been vandalizing the neighborhood."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Late Middle English: from Old French mescreant, present participle of mescroire 'to disbelieve' (from Latin minus 'less, not' + credere 'to believe'). The original meaning was 'heretic, unbeliever', later shifting to 'scoundrel, criminal'.

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