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Delinquency

noun

(pl. delinquencies)

Nonpayment of a debt when due.

A tendency to be negligent and uncaring. Synonyms: dereliction, willful neglect. "His derelictions were not really intended as crimes" , "His adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"

An antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor. Synonym: juvenile delinquency.

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... here. If, he says, the queen was not married to the king, there was no adultery; and the sentence of death and the sentence of divorce mutually neutralize each other. It is possible that in the general horror at so complicated a delinquency, ...

— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude

... reports, we have constantly thrust before us the pervading selfishness, dishonesty, brutality. Yet when we criticise nursery-management and canvass the misbehaviour of juveniles, we habitually take for granted that these culpable persons are free from moral delinquency in the treatment of their boys and girls! So far is this from the truth, that we do not hesitate to blame parental misconduct for a great part of the domestic disorder commonly ascribed to the perversity of children. We do not assert this of the more ...

— Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects - Everyman's Library • Herbert Spencer

... not only stuck to his guns and went on to a Ph.D.; he compounded his delinquency by marrying a pretty, sweet, but not overly bright girl named ...

— By Proxy • Gordon Randall Garrett

... sent you all the successive lectures as they came out, and I forward a set with all manner of apologies for my delinquency. I am such a 'umble-minded party that I never imagined the lectures as delivered would be worth bringing out at all, and I knew I had no time to work them out. Now, I lament I did not publish them myself and turn an honest penny by them as I suspect Hardwicke is ...

— The Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley Volume 1 • Leonard Huxley

... despair, and at once confided Sassy's delinquency to the eldest brother, who knew a great deal about chickens. He said that a leghorn was an all-year-round layer, and that when a hen of the breed failed to uphold the standard of her kind she was fit only for broiling. The youngest brother, overhearing the account of Sassy's conduct and ...

— The Biography of a Prairie Girl • Eleanor Gates

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