(n.) The quality or state of being a vagrant; a wandering without a settled home; an unsettled condition; vagabondism.
Example Sentences:
(1) The deaths occurred in what was described in court as "the nether world" of alcoholic vagrancy into which the death of her husband plunged her.
(2) Excluding vagrancy, because of a change in police arrest practice, we found only a 14% reduction in criminal charges.
(3) Results indicated: (1) 67% of the alcoholics had no arrests before or after hospitalization; (2) prehospitalization arrest rates of alcoholics were higher than the general population for robbery, assault, sex offenses, theft, public intoxication, drunk driving, traffic offenses, and vagrancy; (3) following hospitalization, alcoholic arrest rates were reduced significantly in all categories except robbery and embezzlement and fraud; and (4) posthospitalization alcoholic arrest rates were lower than the general population for all offenses except robbery, public intoxication, and DWI.
(4) The number of cases brought to court under the 1824 Vagrancy Act has surged by 70%, prompting concerns that cuts to support services and benefits are pushing more people to resort to begging.
(5) Harassment, intimidation and wanton arrest were integral to the fabric of young black life, invariably applied by flagrant abuse of the so-called suspected persons, or "sus" law, a section of the 1824 Vagrancy Act that permitted police officers to arrest anyone loitering "with intent to commit an arrestable offence" – which in Britain's ghettoes had come to mean almost anyone between the ages of 13 and 30.
(6) The reasons why the patients remained untreated for so long are considered, and include vagrancy, living with high Expressed Emotion relatives, and neglect in the community.
(7) The Vatican felt compelled to comment, charging Taylor with "erotic vagrancy".
(8) Crofts is a child of the 1960s who seems to have transformed a secret vagrancy into a way of life.
(9) The authors, after defining the words "vagrancy" and "vagrant", explore their semantical field and try to specify differences in respect of neighbouring words, often confused with them.
(10) An historical sketch of vagrancy, from antiquity to the present era, is depicted.
(11) The present article focuses on the adverse effect of drug abuse on industry, education and training and the family, as well as on its contribution to violence, crime, financial problems, housing problems, homelessness and vagrancy.
(12) An invariable association of persisting ventral mesogastrium with abnormalities in colonic anatomy (hepatocolonic vagrancy) is described.
(13) Every time a minister announces a clampdown on access to benefits, or a zero-tolerance attitude to vagrancy – which in Cameron's article this morning is undoubtedly meant to be read as "Go home, Roma" – they also chip away at the delicate tissue of mutual obligation that sustains social cohesion.
(14) Among 327 offences that have recently been purged from the statute book was that of "being an incorrigible rogue", under the Vagrancy Act 1824.
(15) but then again, we're threatening to prosecute people for "vagrancy" now, so why restrict our pre-industrial revolution nostalgia to language?
(16) Elsewhere, Ian Beale's journey from mute vagrancy to spluttering sentience continues apace.
(17) In a recent report , the National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty found that between 2011 and 2014, city-wide bans on camping in public increased by 60%, loitering, loafing and vagrancy laws by 35% and bans on sleeping in vehicles by 119%.
(18) Crime and policing Change procedures to make it easier for people to make a citizen's arrest for vagrancy, drunkenness, weapons and low level disorder "to help improve Met clear up rates", and introduce an "offend on Saturday, face court on Monday" zero tolerance approach to gangs, knife crime and antisocial behaviour.
(19) Figures provided by the Crown Prosecution Service following a freedom of information request show there were 2,771 cases brought before magistrates courts in England and Wales under section 3 of the Vagrancy Act, which deals with begging, in 2013-14, compared with 1,626 the previous year.
(20) The last part of the paper considers psychopathology of vagrancy, specially in psychoanalytical and phenomenological approaches, and problems of rehabilitation.
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.