vagrancy in English

noun
1
the state of living as a vagrant; homelessness.
a descent into vagrancy and drug abuse

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1. He is charged with vagrancy.

2. He was convicted of drunkenness and vagrancy.

3. The tramp was arrested for vagrancy.

4. Vagrancy and begging has become commonplace in London.

5. Sometimes, perhaps vagrancy has become a habit.

6. Strangers are picked up for vagrancy after three days.

7. And meanwhile the quite obvious cause of vagrancy the face.

8. Chambliss. " A Sociological Analysis of the Law of Vagrancy . ".

9. Most European countries have abandoned laws that make vagrancy a crime.

10. He also frisked drunks and got himself arrested on a vagrancy charge.

11. The place where even the barest sketch of family life ended and vagrancy began.

12. Police would begin by warning sidewalk solicitors that they are in violation of vagrancy laws.

13. To take a fundamental question about vagrancy: Why do tramps exist at all?

14. Like a swallow in vagrancy, covering all the streets lanes in the Capital.

15. Next it was five Interpen commandos picked up for vagrancy, courtesy of the Dade County sheriff.

16. The growing numbers of the poor were reflected in begging, vagrancy and theft, all of which led to repressive reactions.

17. On the whole, Assizes dealt with the more serious offences such as murder, rape, infanticide, felonies, highway robbery, coining, forgery, vagrancy and witchcraft.

18. Public drunkenness and other alcohol possession/use offences; Disorderly conduct; Riot; Violent Disorder; Affray; Public fight; Causing public nuisance; Offensive language or behaviour; Vagrancy; Begging; Litter offences; Public mischief; Criminal trespass; Forcible entry and occupation

19. He would spend four times that long in “luxurious vagrancy” in the islands, which would ever afterward linger in his memory as “the peacefullest, restfullest, sunniest, Balmiest, dreamiest haven of refuge for a worn and weary spirit the surface of the earth can offer.” LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY