(a.) Journeying; itinerant; -- formerly applied to judges who went on circuit and to bailiffs at large.
(n.) One who wanders about.
Example Sentences:
(1) Francis Maude, the Cabinet Office minister, said he would be astonished if the coalition had not enacted a lobbyists' register and a power to recall errant MPs by 2015.
(2) To do that, it needed to stamp down on errant food industry practices.
(3) "Fighter jets will fly in shifts, giving 24-hour coverage over the president's airspace, so they can intervene quickly if an errant plane gets too close."
(4) They also produced soft boots with Velcro straps, parent-friendly, one-strap bindings (though kids can also ride without) and a Riglet Reel tow rope that tacks on to the front of the board so that you can pull your toddler along like an errant spaniel, while giving them a good idea of the snow-riding sensation they are aiming for.
(5) The lead stood at two goals before Andre Marriner's errant judgment.
(6) That’s why a boycott is such an ineffective path to shaming our errant oligarchs, particularly in the case of LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling.
(7) Fisher was forgiven and is busy organising for Momentum , the grassroots Corbyn campaign to bring errant MPs to heel.
(8) Being sutureless, no tension is placed on any layer; there is no damage to tissues from an errant suturing technique.
(9) Neonatal patients received the lowest rate of errant orders.
(10) The next few days will be critical as Beijing weighs up its options, but for now the likelihood is that China will chose cautious diplomatic hedging rather than decisive action against its errant North Korean ally.
(11) 49 min: Another half-hearted Paraguay attack ends in failure, when an errant pass is played straight to the feet of one of New Zealand's very well organised back three.
(12) Ministers are to revive shelved plans for laws to be introduced before 2015 to regulate lobbyists and recall errant MPs following days of sleaze allegations which may well have damaged the standing of parliament.
(13) Can he get these errant types – known disparagingly as à la carte or cafeteria Catholics – to dine from the fixed menu?
(14) The purpose of this study was to record prospectively the frequency of and potential harm caused by errant medication orders at two large pediatric hospitals.
(15) Mr Holder is also pressing voting rights lawsuits across the county that directly challenge Chief Justice John Roberts’s errant view that the era of racial discrimination in the United States is over.
(16) One of my clients waited until midnight for his errant son to visit to play Scrabble with him – the son never arrived.
(17) He was prevented from giving Liverpool the first major Premier League win of the Brendan Rodgers' era only by an assistant referee's errant flag for offside in stoppage time.
(18) Vickers said Ipso would have an investigative arm and would impose tough sanctions on errant publishers, including fines of up to £1m for systemic wrongdoing, giving it "absolute teeth, very real teeth".
(19) As far as much of the audience is concerned, these errant former child stars seem like exotic commodities to be traded on the scandal market, although they are also clearly just young people living under abnormal levels of scrutiny.
(20) The combined results of the mutation and adduct characterizations suggest that there are basic differences in the structural configuration of each adduct species which are recognized during errant DNA repair and as a result lead to base changes at a frequency which is relatable to the configuration of the original adduct lesion.
Vagrant
Definition:
(a.) Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
(a.) Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar.
(n.) One who strolls from place to place; one who has no settled habitation; an idle wanderer; a sturdy beggar; an incorrigible rogue; a vagabond.
Example Sentences:
(1) We don't whip homeless vagrants out of town any more, or burn big holes in their ears, as in the brutish 16th century.
(2) Del Seymour knows all about the pimps, drug dealers and vagrants of San Francisco’s Tenderloin district – because he used to be one of them.
(3) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
(4) Although cerebral damage was even more frequent among vagrants and others dependent on social support, half the men living in their own homes were also affected.
(5) All of life came in – vagrants, prostitutes, pimps, addicts, young people having a laugh, people who'd had too much to drink, police officers finishing shifts, nurses starting shifts, plus the person like my dad who was about to treat his family to a bucket.
(6) When law enforcement officers and policymakers – those who should be setting our collective moral compass – treat society’s most vulnerable with such contempt, is it any wonder that some people set out to rid the world of “the most foul vagrants,” as one New Yorker described homeless people on the Peek-a-Boo website ?
(7) Le Monde said: "The document specifies the techniques used to spy on the communications of the French diplomats: Highlands for pirating computers using remotely delivered cookies; Vagrant for capturing information from screens; and finally PBX, which is the equivalent of eavesdropping on the discussion of the French diplomatic service as if one was participating in a conference call."
(8) A point prevalence study design was used to ascertain the demographic, physical, mental illness and alcohol abuse characteristics of a sample of a vagrant population which inhabits the downtown area of an American Northwest urban community.
(9) Although cerebral damage was more frequent among vagrants and other persons dependent on social support, 50% of the alcoholics living in their own homes were also affected.
(10) Mobilization of vagrant heavy metals may be significantly increased by contact of baghouse dusts or scrubber slurries with acidic effluents emanating from acid plants designed to produce H2SO4 as a smelter by-product.
(11) These findings have important health implications for those carrying out post mortem examinations from these groups as well as for those involved with the continuing care of immigrant or vagrant populations.
(12) Manet certainly painted the city's darker corners: the paupers, prostitutes, vagrants and the places they frequented, but it was with the eye of an observer, says Stéphane Guégan, curator of the 2011 Manet exhibition at the Musée d'Orsay in Paris.
(13) During the time I wandered through foreign countries like a vagrant, the time I had to live under an alias, and the time when I had to live like a slave in someone else’s home, I looked back on those memories and found solace in them.
(14) The tail-end of hurricane Katia brought in many buff-breasted sandpipers from North America to Somerset and Pembrokeshire, and a single vagrant monarch butterfly arrived at Ringstead Bay in Dorset.
(15) Only then was there talk of copycat crimes, of gangs dressed like Alex threatening beating up vagrants.
(16) The statement said Simelane had been "left to his own devices, without continued medication, a vagrant living on buses without help or supervision from our public services: this is the person who killed Christina on one of those buses."
(17) The survey was conducted in two Metropolitan courts; one in an area frequented by vagrants, and the other in a mixed middle-class and working-class area.Few of the offenders were casual roisterers and the majority had a serious drinking problem.
(18) He also cracked down on winos and street vagrants; if squeegee merchants had existed, no doubt they would have been added to the list.
(19) In 1909, five leprosaria were established in the leprosy endemic areas by local government to admit vagrant leprosy patients who were estimated as one thousand and two hundred.
(20) These suggest that tuberculosis in vagrants may differ from the usual stage of tuberculosis diagnosed in elderly persons in terms of response to anti-tuberculosis agents and potential recovery.