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errant
adjective
1 errant
Straying from the right course or from accepted standards.
Roget 279:
deviating
etc.
v.;
aberrant,
errant;
excursive,
discursive;
devious,
desultory,
loose;
rambling;
stray,
erratic,
vagrant,
undirected,
circuitous,
indirect,
zigzag;
crab-like.
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Roget 874:
disgraced
etc.
v.;
blown upon;
shorn of its beams"
[Milton],
shorn of one's glory;
overcome,
downtrodden;
loaded with shame
etc.
n.;
in bad repute
etc.
n.;
out of repute,
out of favor,
out of fashion,
out of countenance;
at a discount;
under a cloud,
under an eclipse;
unable to show one's face;
in the shade,
in the background;
out at elbows,
down at the elbows,
down in the world.
inglorious;
nameless,
renownless†;
obscure;
unknown to fame;
unnoticed,
unnoted†,
unhonored,
unglorified†.
shameful;
disgraceful,
discreditable,
disreputable;
despicable;
questionable;
unbecoming,
unworthy;
derogatory;
degrading,
humiliating,
infra dignitatem [Lat.],
dedecorous†;
scandalous,
infamous,
too bad,
unmentionable;
ribald,
opprobrious;
errant,
shocking,
outrageous,
notorious.
ignominious,
scrubby,
dirty,
abject,
vile,
beggarly,
pitiful,
low,
mean,
shabby base
etc.
(dishonorable)
940.
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2 errant
Uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable.
Moby thesaurus: aberrant, aberrative, abroad, adrift, all abroad, all off, all wrong, amiss, askew, astray, at fault, awry, beside the mark, circuitous, circumforaneous, corrupt, deceptive, defective, delusive, departing, desultory, deviant, deviating, deviational, deviative, deviatory, devious, digressive, discursive, distorted, divagatory, drifting, errable, erratic, erring, erroneous, error-prone, excursive, fallacious, fallible, false, faultful, faulty, flawed, flitting, floating, footloose, footloose and fancy-free, fugitive, gadding, gypsy-like, gypsyish, heretical, heterodox, illogical, illusory, indirect, itinerant, labyrinthine, landloping, liable to error, mazy, meandering, migrational, migratory, misbehaving, mischievous, naughty, nomad, nomadic, not right, not true, off, off the track, open to error, out, out-of-the-way, peccant, perverse, perverted, planetary, rambling, ranging, roaming, roving, self-contradictory, serpentine, shifting, snaky, straggling, stray, straying, strolling, swerving, traipsing, transient, transitory, transmigratory, turning, twisting, undirected, unfactual, unorthodox, unproved, unreliable, untrue, vagabond, vagrant, veering, wandering, wide, winding, wrong, zigzag ... show more.
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