truant

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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.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026

He was a serial truant and left school at 15 without learning to read or write.

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2025

As one might have predicted, the trio of 14-year-old supposedly truant adolescents quickly overwhelmed the comic.

From Salon • Jun. 1, 2025

And man, that idea, that image of 22 public integrity lawyers locked in a room like truant children until they knuckle under, and somebody is going to file it.

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2025

I had the feeling of a boy who thinks of what is happening at a certain hour at the schoolhouse from which he has played truant.

From "A Farewell To Arms" by Ernest Hemingway