truant
IPA: trˈuʌnt
noun
- One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
verb
- (intransitive) To play truant.
- (transitive) To idle away; to waste.
- To idle away time.
adjective
- Absent without permission, especially from school.
- Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
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Examples of "truant" in Sentences
- He was a truant in fact.
- In jail, he meets Lucigniolo, another truant thief.
- Donnelly tells him that Sherrod is on the truant list.
- Lee did not do well at school, and he was often truant.
- It'll be many a day I shall be called truant, I reckon.
- In high school, Andrei Amalrik was a restless student and truant.
- Belle started playing truant and asking Shadrach to cover for her.
- Abi plays truant from school to meet Jordan and go to the park with him.
- In Finland a truant pupil gets usually detention in comprehensive school.
- Lucian Freud also attended the school for two years, but mostly played truant.
- She got pregnant just before the city discovered she was a 17 year old truant.
- Roman Catholic schoolgirl labelled 'truant' for refusing to wear headscarf on mosque trip
- But still his heart failed; for he could not recall his truant thoughts from the wolf-like
- I called the truant officer, and now the kids' school is supplying them with food and cell phones.
- The girls hurried out before the employees had a chance to call the truant officer and ran down the street.
- Then the Kentish king, admonished by a dream of the archbishop's, made submission, recalled the truant bishops, and restored Justus to
- Before the pleasant afternoon closed, he had gained permission to call the truant Letty, and she primmed her rosy lips as he taught her to say Will.
- The truant was a pretty, white-nosed creature, a special pet of his master's, with great brown, confiding eyes, and ample ears, and Amberley had named him Simon.
- It goes, however, slower and slower, and curving its journey less and less, until at last its motion in remote obscurity is again so sluggish, that the sun's attraction is once more predominant, and able to recall the truant towards its realms of light.
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