Failure to attend (especially school)

Usage examples of truancy.

That she, of all on earth, should be encouraging Crossjay to truancy was incredible.

De Craye and Willoughby on the subject of his latest truancy, each gentleman trying to run him down in a palpable fib.

That truancy was to a great extent responsible for these juvenile delinquents was proved by the fact that more then one-half of the lads sent to Magill had committed the crimes for which they were first convicted while truanting.

Our truancy is defined by one fixed our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment, toss it around while I pass, a short dash here, an exploration there, but we are brought round full circle to face again the single fact-that we, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern bearing a letter from one king to another, are taking Hamlet.

My mother confessed her truancy and affirmed that she would not go back to school.

The punishment for complete truancy was little worse than for being late.

Luckily for him, his father was absent at a Vigilance Committee called to take cognizance of the late sluice robberies, and although this temporarily concealed his offense of truancy, the news of the vigilance meeting determined him to keep his lips sealed.

In other words, the human nature of the man was dragged to the school of its truancy by circumstances, for him to learn the commonest of sums done on a slate, in regard to payment of debts and the unrelaxing grip of the creditor on the defaulter.

Muckle exhorted the newly arrived lawmen to arrest the protesters for trespassing, truancy, and disturbing the peace.

Also, there is no longer any pretence of attending school these daysand nobody is mentioning my truancy, so I guess Jasmine told the family to be hush.

Her truancies and vagrancies concerned them not: she was a law to herself, like the birds and squirrels.

Truancy could lead to juvenile delinquency, as was well known by every mother worth her Parents magazine subscription.