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How to pronounce truant in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms no-show, nonattender
Type of offender, wrongdoer
Type Words
Synonyms hooky player
Type of absentee
Type Words
Synonyms awol
Derivation truancy


truant schoolboys.

Examples of truant

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Dal Santo said the law change didn't inflate the number of truant students much.
From the dailyherald.com
Not to play truant, but mostly to help their parents in obtaining food or money.
From the sciencedaily.com
Truant is chair of the Huntington Society of Canada's scientific advisory board.
From the sciencedaily.com
Or the uncle could disown the truant, spoiled nephew and let it fend for itself.
From the economist.com
Jonathan had failed six of nine classes the year before and was regularly truant.
From the washingtonpost.com
A child is truant if you go on vacation for more than three days during the year.
From the ocregister.com
In fact the number of secondary school pupils playing truant is up by nearly 25%.
From the guardian.co.uk
Boys in particular say they get little from classes, and often truant or leave.
From the guardian.co.uk
This was where the truant and delinquent boys of Queens were sent to be reformed.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • One who is absent from school without permission
  • No-show: someone who shirks duty
  • (truancy) failure to attend (especially school)
  • Truant (stylized as truANT) is Alien Ant Farm's second album. It was released on August 8, 2003 by DreamWorks Records. The producers of the album were Stone Temple Pilots' guitarist and bassist Robert DeLeo and Dean DeLeo.
  • Truancy is any intentional unauthorized absence from compulsory schooling. The term typically describes absences caused by students of their own free will, and usually does not refer to legitimate "excused" absences, such as ones related to medical conditions. ...
  • (The truancy) Truancy is a dystopian novel written by Isamu Fukui, a New York City student in Stuyvesant High School, when he was 15 years old. ...
  • (Truancy) The student stays out of school without permission or valid excuse.
  • Truancy is a measure of how often the user forgoes the recommended daily review of information in the application. ...
  • R.L. Stevenson writes that "while others are filling their memory with a lumber of words, one-half of which they will forget before the week be out, your truant may learn some really useful art: to play the fiddle, to know a good cigar, or to speak with ease and opportunity to all varieties of ...