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n. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

n. One who shirks work or duty.

adj. Absent without permission, especially from school.

adj. Idle, lazy, or neglectful.

verb-intransitive. To be truant.

adj. Describing one who is truant, absent without permission, especially from school.

n. One who is absent without permission, especially from school.

v. To play truant.

v. To idle away; to waste.

n. One who stays away from business or any duty; especially, one who stays out of school without leave; an idler; a loiterer; a shirk.

adj. Wandering from business or duty; loitering; idle, and shirking duty.

verb-intransitive. To idle away time; to loiter, or wander; to play the truant.

v. To idle away; to waste.

n. A vagabond; a vagrant; an idler.

Idle; loitering; given to shirking duty or business, or attendance at some appointed time or place: especially noting children who absent themselves from school without leave.

Characteristic of a truant; idle; loitering; wandering.

To idle away time or shirk duty; play truant.

To waste or idle away.

n. someone who shirks duty

adj. absent without permission

n. one who is absent from school without permission

"I called the truant officer, and now the kids' school is supplying them with food and cell phones."

absent   

truanted    truanting    truants   

offender    wrongdoer    absentee   

truant-school    to play truant   

truant officer    play truant   

idler    loiterer    shirk    loitering    waste   

confluent    fluent    pursuant   

errant    10-year-old    eldest    fourteen-year-old    wayward    sixteen-year-old    eight-year-old    fatheaded    15-year-old    ten-year-old