truant
Example Sentences
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In June 1530 Hans Holbein the Younger was rounded up for being a truant from the Reformed Church and its newfangled Eucharist.
The young Len still played truant but took himself down to the local library where he would often read all day.
From BBC
He was a serial truant and left school at 15 without learning to read or write.
From BBC
As one might have predicted, the trio of 14-year-old supposedly truant adolescents quickly overwhelmed the comic.
From Salon
Parents who allow their children to be chronically truant are hurting them and hurting us.
From Salon
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