vagabond
adjective
wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic.
vagabondish
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a word derived from
vagabond.
Example Sentences
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The house was of weather-streaked white stone, in part staring and pretentious, in part prodigal and vagabondish.
From Girlhood and Womanhood The Story of some Fortunes and Misfortunes by Sarah Tytler
"But there be others, happier few, The vagabondish sons of God, Who know the by-ways and the flowers, And care not how the world may plod."
From The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
Kirkwood got out, not without a qualm of regret at leaving the compartment; therein, at least, they had some title to consideration, by virtue of their tickets; now they were utterly vagabondish, penniless adventurers.
From The Black Bag by Louis Joseph Vance
It was the third or fourth day of such a vagabondish journey that found them at nightfall approaching a beech wood.
From Memories of a Musical Life by William Mason
From the age of twelve to twenty years he is distinctly remembered as a dull-eyed, flaxenhaired, prevaricating boy noted only for his indolent and vagabondish character, and his habits of exaggeration and untruthfulness.
From The Story of the Mormons, from the date of their origin to the year 1901 by William Alexander Linn
