vagrancy

Examples

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• Hold your elected officials responsible for encouraging vagrancy by handing out all the free food, beds, and mental healthcare.

  Blog text (5)

• We know about the conviction for vagrancy, public drunkenness.

  Chill Factor (1999)

• Now on your way before I run you in on another vagrancy charge.

  Giant from the Unknown (1958)

• And check every recent report of assault, vagrancy, things like that.

  When a Stranger Calls (1979)

• Vagrancy will hold you for 72 hours.

  Bride of the Monster (1955)

• David was picked up for vagrancy and then released into Charlie's care the next day.

  6 Souls (2010)

• Will ridding a neighborhood of porn shops reduce crime and vagrancy in the area?

  Academic text (2002)

• Worse, the poor still get arrested and indentured for indebtedness, vagrancy, loitering, and other crimes.

  Fiction book (2001)

• Marian Pallavi was picked up for vagrancy last night in Marietta, Georgi.

  Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

• Most women appearing before the courts were charged with behavioral offenses, the public order transgressions such as vagrancy, prostitution-related offenses, drunkenness, and language or conduct transgressions.

  Academic text (1993)

Synonyms

H

homelessness

vsvagrancy

56 3.0

Not having a home and living on the streets or without shelter

emphasizes wandering and lack of regular support rather than only lacking shelter

V

vagabondage

vsvagrancy

• Archaic

9.9

Moving from place to place without a home or clear purpose

emphasizes lack of support and often a loss of home rather than just wandering

Antonyms

S

stability

363 3.1

Being steady and not likely to change

How Settled

stability

363 3.1

transience

2 8.1

rootlessness

1 8.1

vagrancy

5 8.7

homelessness

56 3.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology