All truantry synonyms
tru·ant·ry
T t noun truantry
- hooky — unjustifiable absence from school, work, etc. (usually used in the phrase play hooky): On the first warm spring day the boys played hooky to go fishing.
- nonappearance — failure to appear, as in a court.
- nonattendance — failure to attend: Members of the society can be dropped for chronic nonattendance.
- awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
- awols — a soldier or other military person who is absent from duty without leave.