vagrancy
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Now he’s vying to be the first homeless mayor of a city overwhelmed by vagrancy, disorder and crime.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 29, 2026
In essence, it was a vagrancy ordinance by another name.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 10, 2025
Once released from prison, she emigrated to New York where in 1902 there is a record of her being placed in a workhouse as punishment for vagrancy.
From BBC ● May 22, 2025
Many were jailed for petty offenses like loitering and vagrancy.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 29, 2024
They settled for a charge of vagrancy and gave him the option of being expelled from the state or serving jail time.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
Ah! wild wit, now at last Thy vagrancies are o'er; The ear and gazing eye That you enthrall'd before.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 382, July 25, 1829 by Various
Her truancies and vagrancies concerned them not: she was a law to herself, like the birds and squirrels.
From Openings in the Old Trail by Bret Harte
Old vagrancies awoke, and he resolved that, dearly as he loved his house, he would not enter it again till dawn.
From The Longest Journey by E. M. (Edward Morgan) Forster
If we would have our hearts calm, we must let Him guide them, sway them, curb their vagrancies, stimulate their desires, and satisfy the desires which He has stimulated.
From Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians Chapters I to End. Colossians, Thessalonians, and First Timothy. by Alexander Maclaren
For now he would divert me to another topic and again bring me back to her, so that it all seemed the vagrancies of a boy's inconsequent chatter.
From Ensign Knightley and Other Stories by A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason
