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play truant

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As a boy at the Grammar School of his native town, it is to be feared he loved to play truant.

In stopping to persuade Richard not to play truant, he had come near being too late.

He is vexed that he used to play truant so at school and never learned anything.

But one day, when the window was open, and the door of the cage was open also, Polly thought it was a good time to play truant.

They are content to make their contacts with things by a vague, unregulated power, ever apt to play truant, ever apt to fail them.

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On this page you'll find 65 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to play truant, such as: betray, bolt, depart, escape, flee, and forsake.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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