errant

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I'm sure there was even an errant trebuchet or two.

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Quick take

straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

adjective

uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for errant.

adjective

straying from the right course or from accepted standards; "errant youngsters"

adjective

uncontrolled motion that is irregular or unpredictable; "an errant breeze"

Example sentences

I'm sure there was even an errant trebuchet or two.

I'll be damned if a flame post and an errant Sriracha bottle is going to take that away from us.

Say you spend a night in jail for an errant arrest, you get an immediate $2k for time lost and distress incurred.

An errant 'rm' or damaging programming error is more of a risk than a disk failure or a building fire.

We absolutely need to own this one and not pin it every time on errant individuals.

The court could find neither shooter is liable, since it cannot be proven which actually fired the errant shot.

Is it just errant, broad pessimism?I understand wanting more options or not liking either available option but they're not the same.

While this incident is entertaining, as the article points out, more often it is damaging to the "offender" of an errant takedown.

You make money by marketing yourself and growing your business, not policing the entire internet for errant copies of a photo.

No, it sure as hell was not a "good business decision".They got attacked by errant children expressing sad rage at something that while bad, was not deserving of retaliation against the company.

If you don't want to upgrade and are afraid one errant "update all" click will remove your installed copies of iWork '09, you're safe: like the iMovie '08 upgrade, the new iWork apps are installed side-by-side with the old versions.

If an errant cigarette is enough to bring down a plane why does the TSA strip search me looking for a bomb?I bet you could get a pretty roaring fire going using the 120v outlet and all the paper goods provided in the bathroom.

The number of package I've seen that have init scripts that don't properly stop or start the daemon, or don't check the pid file and or subsys lock file; or daemons that don't properly chdir, or don't release an errant file descriptor, make me want to scream.

The pilot, whos been apprised of these developments, must now make the crucial call of whether to wait for the errant valises and risk a late departureI'm actually surprised that it comes down to the pilot's call - you'd think that their job is to just worry about flying the plane, not whether baggage has made it or not.