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Adjektiivit
- Absent without permission, especially from school.
- Wandering from business or duty; straying; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.
Substantiivit
- One who is absent without permission, especially from school.
Verbit
- (intransitive) To play truant.
- (transitive) To idle away; to waste.
- To idle away time.
Esimerkit
- He didn't graduate because he was chronically truant and didn't have enough attendances to meet the requirement.
- A truant fly can get in your eye.
- A truant disposition, good my lord.
- While truant Jove, in infant pride, / Play'd barefoot on Olympus' side.
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.[...]She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.}}
- the number of schoolchildren known to have truanted
- I dare not be the author / Of truanting the time.
- By this means they lost their time and truanted on the fundamental grounds of saving knowledge.
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