The meaning of Derelicts

noun

A person, typically a homeless one, who lives by asking for money or food.

Usage examples:

How many times have you been asked in the street for some money from a seemingly homeless person or…

verb

Reduce (someone) to poverty.

Usage examples:

Why should i beggar myself for you?

noun

A poor person who lives by asking others for money or food

noun

A vagrant.

Usage examples:

Bums had been known to wander up to their door and ask for a sandwich

verb

Get by asking or begging.

Usage examples:

They tried to bum money off us

adjective

Of poor quality; bad or wrong.

Usage examples:

Not one bum note was played

noun

A person who sleeps rough; a tramp.

noun

Someone who has no home and no money

noun

A person who is continually moving from place to place, without any fixed home or job.

Usage examples:

Her songs are peopled with drifters, ramblers, old lovers.

noun

A person who moves from one place to another or from one job to another without any real purpose

noun

A person who is thought of as worthless

Usage examples:

She’s a lazy good-for-nothing.

noun

A homeless person; a tramp or vagrant.

Usage examples:

Cohen includes a category of songs about hoboes, tramps, vagabonds, etc. who populated the boxcars …

adjective

Given to begging.

Usage examples:

Possibly it was sheer vanity and love of easily-won applause that drove him to act out the role of …

noun

A beggar.

Usage examples:

I thought of dorothy wordsworth who coined the phrase, ‘the rant and cant of the staled beggar’, as…

noun

Someone, especially a member of a religious group, who lives by asking people they do not know for money

Usage examples:

She abandoned her job and her career, and lived as a homeless mendicant on the streets of philadelp…

noun

A person who has been rejected or ostracized by their society or social group.

Usage examples:

She went from trusted pal to ostracized outcast overnight

adjective

(of a person) rejected or ostracized.

Usage examples:

They can be made to feel outcast and inadequate

noun

A person who is not accepted or has no place in society or in a particular group

Usage examples:

A social outcast

noun

An outcast.

Usage examples:

They were treated as social pariahs

noun

A person who is avoided or not accepted by a social group, esp. because he or she is not liked, respected, or trusted; an outcast

Usage examples:

Because of its poor human rights record, the country was treated as a pariah by other nations.

verb

Walk heavily or noisily.

Usage examples:

He tramped about the room

noun

A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.

Usage examples:

In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, va…

verb

To walk with heavy steps

Usage examples:

[ i ] i’ve been tramping through museums all day., tramps knew the houses where you got good food.,…

noun

A person who wanders from place to place without a home or job.

Usage examples:

Vagabond tales is loosely based around the adventures of a musical vagabond who travels around the …

adjective

Having no settled home.

Usage examples:

A vagabond poacher

verb

Wander about as or like a vagabond.

Usage examples:

He went vagabonding about the world

noun

A person without a settled home or regular work who wanders from place to place and lives by begging.

Usage examples:

When stern bought his first camera in 1948, he wandered around the bowery in chinatown, photographi…

adjective

Relating to or living the life of a vagrant.

Usage examples:

Vagrant beggars

noun

A person who has no home or job and who moves from place to place

noun

A wasteful or good-for-nothing person.

Usage examples:

I have no intention of seeing my dues gambled away by your wastrel of a son

noun

A person who does nothing positive with their life, making no use of their abilities or the opportunities that are offered to them