errant
straying from the proper course or accepted standards
Errant in a sentence
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An errant pass sailed over the receiver's head and out of bounds.
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Verbal · Sentence Equivalence
The new intern was so blank that she completed in two days a backlog her predecessor had let pile up for weeks.
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