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Meanings of truancy in English
Synonyms
Examples for "hooky"
Examples for "hooky"
1
But I think her creative part, her musical part, is pretty hooky.
2
A grown-up Matthew Broderick played hooky and sleepwalked through some Ferris-style hijinks.
3
It's as simple as tit-tat-toe, three-in-a-row, and as easy as playing hooky.
4
Tom had laughed and rollicked, played hooky from school, disobeyed Isaac's commandments.
5
We're both going to stay home and play hooky all week.
1
She sighed, realizing she hadn't answered her mom's question about skipping school.
2
One in six said their children were skipping school to work for food.
3
You heard everything I said-childrenforced to steal, wearing bruises, skipping school .
4
Rosie's also been skipping school, though not in order to watch movies downtown.
5
Two teenaged boys skipping school had snuck into the house and found the body.
1
Two students from Fashion Design class sped by on bicycles, apparently also skipping class.
2
Their most reprehensible behavior might be skipping class or talking back to a parent.
3
I'm not skipping class, I'm actually giving you my class.
4
If not, they may end up skipping class altogether.
5
He's just a school boy who, on any other day, would have been told off for skipping class.
Usage of truancy in English
1
The police in Waikato have launched a new initiative to combat truancy.
2
Andrew McRae explores what's being done to combat the problem of truancy.
3
Inferno's owner Lee Quince rejected criticism that the offer was encouraging truancy.
4
In the rest of the country, the Garda has responsibility for truancy.
5
Surely they do not need to send the truancy officer round here.
6
The punishment for complete truancy was little worse than for being late.
7
The predecessor school, he wrote, was riddled with indiscipline, bullying and truancy.
8
Soon after breakfast, Mr. Brown again appeared, very indignant over Duke's truancy.
9
On an average school day the truancy rates are over 20 per cent.
10
Those can include driving under a suspended license and truancy, the station said.
11
The thought of my truancy was no balm to my conscience just then.
12
Supporters say it gives them discipline, cuts truancy and boosts self-esteem.
13
Teacher retention was a challenge, he said, and student truancy had reached alarming levels.
14
Even at primary level, there is a high level of truancy in poorer areas.
15
It targets educational needs and truancy in the Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown area of Co Dublin.
16
First it comes out he'd been booted off the Iraq Study Group for truancy.
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Translations for truancy
Portuguese
Catalan
Truancy through the time
Truancy across language varieties
United Kingdom
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