Then, almost as if taking a toy away from an errant child, the giant immediately in front of Data slapped him across the face.

Am I forever, then, to be shut away like an errant child?

How many times has his name been used like a charm to castigate an errant child or a poor official?

I would not be pulled into the hallway like an errant child.

Why did she always feel like an errant child in Afra's presence?

And she'd never felt more like the errant child.

Magee stared at her as if she was an errant child.

With older women it was an errant child or an unsuitable match in prospect.

He spoke as though explaining something simple to an errant child.

I don't need to be lectured like some errant child.