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vagrant

noun as in person with no permanent home and often with no means of support

adjective as in wandering, nomadic

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He plays Tom T. Shiftlet, a one-armed vagrant who talks a woman into taking him on as her handyman, then marries her mute, deaf daughter, Lucynell.

But now, it had shuttered all but the main tavern hall and several rooms for solitary vagrants.

But from the arguments, it’s not clear the court will say Grants Pass went too far and violated the “vagrants’ ” constitutional rights.

A podcast by the right-wing Cicero Institute suggested that instead of calling people “homeless,” we revert to words like “vagrants,” “bums” and “tramps.”

He’s a vagrant by definition — a man with no job, no paper trail or online presence.

From Salon

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

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