absent, blighter, delinquent, eye-servant, human wreck, malingering, pauvre diable, sad sack, skulker, tax dodger, wastrel
Definitionadj. absent without permission
Last update: May 5, 2016
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Keep an eye on the student.He seems to be a truant. [verb]
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He used to play truant from school from time to time. [Please select]
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A truant provincial was paying the forfeit of his disobedience, by being plundered of those very effects which had caused him to desert his place in the ranks. [Please select]
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Robin thought the old man was angry with them for playing truant. [Please select]
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"So you are here, you truant," said the boy. [Please select]
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Now that the exhilaration of truant delights had died away, his conscience was beginning to give him salutary twinges. [Please select]
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In the end his father heard that he was playing truant, and tried to force the boy back to school. [Please select]
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There they are eternally playing truant. [Please select]
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