innocent vs miscreant

innocent

noun
  • One who is innocent, especially a young child. 

adj
  • Free from guilt, sin, or immorality. 

  • Not harmful; innocuous; harmless; benign. 

  • Without wrongful intent; accidental or in good faith. 

  • Naive; artless. 

  • Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture. 

  • Lawful; permitted. 

  • Bearing no legal responsibility for a wrongful act. 

  • Lacking (something), or knowledge of it. 

miscreant

adj
  • Lacking in conscience or moral principles; unscrupulous. 

  • Holding an incorrect religious belief. 

noun
  • One who holds a false religious belief; a misbeliever. 

  • One not restrained by moral principles; an unscrupulous villain. 

  • One who has behaved badly, or illegally. 

How often have the words innocent and miscreant occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )