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
Possibly he was an impostor, one of the multitudinous shapes of English vagabondism, and told his falsehood with such powerful simplicity, because, by many repetitions, he had convinced himself of its truth.
From Our Old Home A Series of English Sketches A Series of English Sketches by Nathaniel Hawthorne
I had come here just invalid enough to be benefited by our primitive style of living; not too delicate to endure it, nor too robust to enjoy the utter vagabondism of it.
From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor
By what right such men go about in ecclesiastical vagabondism to spoil the peace of devotional meetings it is impossible to tell.
From Around The Tea-Table by T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt) Talmage
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
