vagrancy

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

The story takes place during a season of vagrancy in Jacqueline’s life, tracking her efforts to find shelter and enough food to keep from fainting.

From New York Times ● Feb. 8, 2024

Clearly, the purpose of the black codes in general and the vagrancy laws in particular was to establish another system of forced labor.

From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander

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

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

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

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

Perhaps Uncle Contarine continued clement merely because in the nature of things his responsibilities for the vagrancies of his kinsman were inevitably less intimate.

From Oliver Goldsmith by E. S. Lang Buckland