errant

[US]/'er(ə)nt/
[UK]/'ɛrənt/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. wandering; indefinite; incorrect; deviating from the right course.

Phrases & Collocations

errant behavior

errant driver

errant student

knight errant

Example Sentences

an errant afternoon breeze.

to bring back the errant daughter

he could never forgive his daughter's errant ways.

She went to Paris to bring back her errant son.

An errant husband is one who leaves his wife for other women.

tales of medieval knights errant, wandering in search of chivalrous adventures

And then one day, in a fit of spring madness, I set out with pruner and lopper to remove a few errant branches.

Flottant dans les clartés, dans les ombres errant,

An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life.  A swirl of water and a ‘cloop!’

Real-world Examples

Accidentally took an errant package to the head.

Source: Person of Interest Season 5

He notes that the success rate increased after repositioning the water-sprayer used to punish errant animals.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

" What is illness to the body of our knight errant" ?

Source: Newsroom

One errant click may send it to the wrong person.

Source: BBC Learning English (official version)

Back in my hotel room, the errant rooster had quieted down.

Source: 202319

An errant strike on a wedding party...

Source: Homeland Season 4

A clinginess suggested a yearning to recover errant strays and join them sympathetically.

Source: Friday Flash Fiction - 100-word Micro Fiction

There are gonna be divorce lawyers who are gonna be tracking errant spouses.

Source: Radio Laboratory

So that's just a piece of errant dirt that fell onto the film at some point.

Source: Perspective Encyclopedia of Film and Television

In the sudden stillness, a suspensor light drifted slightly in an errant breeze from the serving kitchen hallway.

Source: "Dune" audiobook

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