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.
- 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.