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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"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
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
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
And the guests plying between the source of supply and the breakfast-table proper created a vagabondish camping-out air of geniality that did much to dispel the natural stiffness of the morning intercourse.
From The Parts Men Play by Arthur Beverley Baxter
Tethered out upon the vagabondish grass was—not one motor-car, but three!
From Blue Aloes Stories of South Africa by Cynthia Stockley
