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All errant synonyms

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adjective errant

  • wayward — turned or turning away from what is right or proper; willful; disobedient: a wayward son; wayward behavior.
  • sinful — characterized by, guilty of, or full of sin; wicked: a sinful life.
  • naughty — improper, tasteless, indecorous, or indecent: a naughty word.
  • misbehaving — to behave badly or improperly: The children misbehaved during our visit.
  • delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
  • rowdy — a rough, disorderly person.
  • aberrant — Aberrant means unusual and not socially acceptable.
  • stray — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
  • unorthodox — not conforming to rules, traditions, or modes of conduct, as of a doctrine, religion, or philosophy; not orthodox: an unorthodox ideology.
  • deviating — to turn aside, as from a route, way, course, etc.
  • devious — If you describe someone as devious you do not like them because you think they are dishonest and like to keep things secret, often in a complicated way.
  • drifting — a driving movement or force; impulse; impetus; pressure.
  • errable — Liable to error; fallible.
  • fallible — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
  • heretic — a professed believer who maintains religious opinions contrary to those accepted by his or her church or rejects doctrines prescribed by that church.
  • meandering — to proceed by or take a winding or indirect course: The stream meandered through the valley.
  • mischievous — maliciously or playfully annoying.
  • miscreant — depraved, villainous, or base.
  • rambling — aimlessly wandering.
  • ranging — the extent to which or the limits between which variation is possible: the range of steel prices; a wide range of styles.
  • roaming — to walk, go, or travel without a fixed purpose or direction; ramble; wander; rove: to roam about the world.
  • roving — roaming or wandering.
  • straying — to deviate from the direct course, leave the proper place, or go beyond the proper limits, especially without a fixed course or purpose; ramble: to stray from the main road.
  • unreliable — not reliable; not to be relied or depended on.
  • wandering — moving from place to place without a fixed plan; roaming; rambling: wandering tourists.
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