saunter
verb (used without object)
to walk with a leisurely gait; stroll.
saunterer
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a word derived from
saunter.
Example Sentences
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In America, she believes, she can be “light and cosmopolitan, a world-touring saunterer, untethered by land or home … taking flight.”
From Washington Post ● Jan. 3, 2022
Perhaps, at the time when he showed this energy about a game at dice, Alcibiades might have been a saunterer at his book, and a foolish schoolmaster might have made him a dunce.
From Practical Education, Volume I by Maria Edgeworth
The bailiff must not be a saunterer; he must always be sober; he mustn't go out to dinner.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. VIII by Various
He may, indeed, consider me an intruder in the walks of literature, but I am only a saunterer, and malign nobody who chooses to let me pass….
From A Publisher and His Friends Memoir and Correspondence of John Murray; with an Account of the Origin and Progress of the House, 1768-1843 by Samuel Smiles
He had become a saunterer, and the shop windows had obtained from him an attention which he had never previously bestowed upon them.
From Mysterious Mr. Sabin by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim
