vagabond
adjective
wandering from place to place without any settled home; nomadic.
vagabondism
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a word derived from
vagabond.
Example Sentences
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Other characteristics revealed to Dr. Binger by Chambers' career: "pathological lying," "insensitivity for the feelings of others," "bizarre behavior," "vagabondism."
From Time Magazine Archive
Still there was a fascination about it all, a suggestion of vagabondism, of Ishmaelitish wanderings, of having "here no continuing city," that touched the heart of a certain Methodist minister's daughter in our party.
From An American Girl Abroad by Adeline Trafton
This may have been vagabondism, but it was profitable vagabondism to me.
From Seven Wives and Seven Prisons; Or, Experiences in the Life of a Matrimonial Monomaniac. a True Story by L. A. Abbott
Meantime, the earliest good chance I get, I shall roll down to you, my good fellow, seeing we—that is, you and I—must hit upon some little bit of vagabondism before autumn comes.
From Memories of Hawthorne by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
I cannot myself help thinking that all this has arisen very much from the idea of Peele's vagabondism given by the untrustworthy "Jests."
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
