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someone who is poor and has no regular home or jobLess commonly, and especially long ago, you may see vagrant used to emphasize that a poor person wanders from place to place. Even more rarely, it can describe an animal as being in a place it usually is not, or to describe anything that varies or seems random such as the seeming haphazard direction in which a certain weed spreads, or the fleeting quality of something smelled for only an instant.
- She says the American hobo has nearly died out and that today's developed world is hard on vagrants in general.
vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
- Police used to be allowed to use their discretion in deciding whether to arrest any vagrant.
- You know a vagrant is anybody a cop don't like.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- From time to time, a vagrant or a wino would wander through the front door, assuming the house was deserted.Jeannette Walls -- The Glass Castle
- Tom said, "They'll be somebody else foun' dead right 'longside of this here vagrant."John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- So he takes this little guy in, an' they give him sixty days in jail for vagrancy.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- You'll see a lot of them little lines, 'Vagrant foun' dead.'John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Got a law about vagrants.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- If I pay you a half a dollar I ain't a vagrant, huh?John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- Vagrant foun' dead.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- And Leonora also imagined that Edward and Nancy picked her up and threw her down as suited their purely vagrant moods.Ford Madox Ford -- The Good Soldier
- For us that movement of the peoples from west to east, without leaders, with a crowd of vagrants, and with Peter the Hermit, remains incomprehensible.Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
- Looks like you've had a vagrant spending a night or two in there.David Almond -- Skellig
- Poor Rosamond's vagrant fancy had come back terribly scourged—meek enough to nestle under the old despised shelter.George Eliot -- Middlemarch
- This latter group included not just vagrants and criminals, but anyone who happened to be poor or a recent arrival to the city.Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
- The sheriff returns to the lot with railroad officials and makes noises about vagrancy laws.Sara Gruen -- Water for Elephants
- In this great camp of vagrant floaters he lost himself: he came home into this world from loneliness.Thomas Wolfe -- Look Homeward, Angel
- What! he a vagrant, a wanderer, who refuses to budge?Herman Melville -- Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- There was a vagrant wisp of hair on her cheek; I brushed it away gently and kissed her without waking her.John Wyndham -- The Chrysalids
- OEDIPUS A vagrant shepherd journeying for hire?Sophocles -- Oedipus the King
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
vagrancy = for hanging around without a regular home or means of support
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
vagrants = people who are poor and have no regular home or job
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
vagrant = someone who is poor and has no regular home or job
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