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单词 errant
释义
erranter‧rant /ˈerənt/ adjective [only before noun] old-fashioned Word Origin
WORD ORIGINerrant
Origin:
1300-1400 Latin present participle of errare; ERR
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • an errant husband
  • Rainer caught the errant pass.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • An errant blind drop pass was intercepted by Iginla, who had only goalie Alexei Egorov in his way.
  • But the turnover was an errant pass that Clyde Drexler intercepted with 1: 20 left and the Clippers trailing 103-101.
  • But you and I both know all it would take to wreck your career is one errant snip of the scissors.
  • He fired his pistol in the air and charged over the top as if he were chasing some errant fox.
  • Impressionism begat post-impressionism, which begat cubism, which sired futurism, expressionism and all manner of errant abstractions.
  • Mrs Frizzell gazed into space and Mrs Murphy smoothed back errant curls from her damp forehead.
  • That errant thought, coming from goodness knew where, made her heart beat an erratic tattoo.
  • When he hits an errant golf shot, or makes a mental error on the course, he gets aggravated.
behaving badly, usually by not obeying your parents or not being faithful to your husband or wife:  an errant wife their errant son
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