What's the difference between rootless and vagabond?

Rootless


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of roots.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Cable said he had accidentally compared her to the wrong murderous dictator: “I got my literary reference wrong – I think it was Stalin who talked about ‘rootless cosmopolitans’.
  • (2) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more As a backbench all-party committee of MPs warned that housing policy was “a mess”, the Resolution Foundation said those aged 18 to 34 faced the prospect of being permanent renters and that home ownership was increasingly becoming the preserve of the well-off and the elderly.
  • (3) While waiting families often live a rootless existence, subject to frequent moves between different properties and locations, cut off from vital support networks.
  • (4) One of the rough ways that social geographers have of classifying lives led in Britain is to ask how "rooted" or "rootless" they are.
  • (5) It has been cast as representative of the rootlessness of New Labour and, by architecture critic Owen Hatherley , as the doomed apotheosis of the fossil-fuel society.
  • (6) It promotes the ideal worker as a rootless person with no attachment to place or community, and with limited political rights; whose citizenship resides in their ability to work alone.
  • (7) It portrays LA as a place where criminals are rootless, almost weightless.
  • (8) Rootless and ruled by the landlord class – the future for young adults Read more The NUT survey found that most teachers live within 45 minutes of work, suggesting that if forced to move out they would look for jobs close to home rather than commuting in.
  • (9) Hypotheses of tooth emergence are viewed in the light of these rootless eruptions.
  • (10) Salinger's great, obsessive theme was the moral rootlessness of contemporary American materialism and its corrosive effect upon precocious, highly sensitive children and adolescents whose religious yearnings were both esoteric (eastern, mystic) and sentimental (narcissistic, naively self-regarding).
  • (11) Eruption of rootless mandibular premolars and other dental defects in a girl suffering from congenital kidney disease are described.
  • (12) The world of listless, rootless youth, casual acts of sex and random acts of violence in south London parks were very much part of the landscape as I reached my 20th birthday in 1986.
  • (13) Is the Tory party becoming the vehicle for a rootless, amoral global financial community with little loyalty to country – or even to great business?
  • (14) Clinical and histologic examination revealed that the tooth was rootless, incompletely mineralized, and acutely inflamed.
  • (15) They have no country of their own, so we regard them as rootless.
  • (16) Global news channels have their own parallel world of timeless, rootless programmes that work as well at 2am in an airport as at 2pm in a jet-lagged hotel suite.
  • (17) It is suggested that the flagellar rootless may function in controlling the patterning and the direction of cytoplasmic microtubule assembly.
  • (18) Both companies are already the strangely rootless products of previous mergers.
  • (19) Tarantino’s anti-heroes were ideal models for upcoming mafiosi because they were drawn from the same timeless, rootless renegades.
  • (20) Here is its point: the creation of the bored, cynical, rootless Grigory Alexandrovich Pechorin.

Vagabond


Definition:

  • (a.) Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
  • (a.) Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
  • (a.) Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious.
  • (n.) One who wanders from place to place, having no fixed dwelling, or not abiding in it, and usually without the means of honest livelihood; a vagrant; a tramp; hence, a worthless person; a rascal.
  • (v. i.) To play the vagabond; to wander like a vagabond; to stroll.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) An adaptation of the award-winning novel Small Island, about Jamaican immigrants to Britain in the 1940s, and Desperate Romantics, about a group of "vagabond painters and poets" set among the "alleys, galleries and flesh houses of 19th-century industrial London", will be among the first to be broadcast later this year.
  • (2) He said while he was being filmed in the Vagabond studio in Bethnal Green he was thinking about Winston Churchill getting his tattoo done.
  • (3) In view of that it seems necessary to solve a problem of organizing tuberculosis-oriented treatment-and-labor preventoria to render health care to the vagabonds and other patients refusing medical intervention.
  • (4) It’s more comfortable for many to believe instead that these aliens are greedy and parasitical, scroungers and vagabonds who want to take our stuff – our jobs, our homes, our school places, our cures for our sicknesses.
  • (5) (10) Including the Rich Kids, Hot Club, Dead Men Walking, the Flying Padovanis, Slinky Vagabond, the Mavericks, the Philistines and, most recently, International Swingers .
  • (6) The female female lead a vagabond life and actively join the male male in their territories during the breeding season.
  • (7) When people think of the homeless , most can only think of the seeming vagabonds that stink up entire subway cars and beg for change on the street.
  • (8) As an example of why the bylaws needed revoking, an alderman said that one of their conditions was that the porters should "toss out vagabonds and vagrants".
  • (9) The vagabonds had many troubles, especially, they often escaped from leprosaria.
  • (10) They were two vagabonds, Cloquet watching with slackness the young womanizering Flaubert.
  • (11) And remember, society's hard cases – what the Elizabethan poor law (that's Elizabeth I) would have dubbed the "sturdy rogue and vagabonds" who don't want to work and so enrage the tabloids – are not the type you'll probably find in this sort of office in Hull or elsewhere.
  • (12) Low incidence rates of tuberculosis are directly related to social factors, including higher morbidity among such groups as migrants, vagabonds, ex-convicts and alcohol abusers.
  • (13) "I think that in the same way Gabe is probably glad that his mother was a vagabond and not around him enough, and he got to go to all these strange places that now feel enriching."

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