Delinquency is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELINQUENCY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a delinquent act
• a failure to pay an outstanding debt by the due date.
• minor crime, especially that committed by young people
• Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.
• nonpayment of a debt when due
• a tendency to be negligent and uncaring
• an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor
• neglect of one's duty
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a delinquent act; conduct that is out of accord with accepted behavior or the law; juvenile delinquency

Words related to DELINQUENCY

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How to use DELINQUENCY in a sentence

• Far am I from intimating that this puts upon her the stigma of moral delinquency.
• Nor can I, in speaking of the causes of juvenile delinquency, omit to say, I think these houses, indirectly, a very great cause of it.
• A large and highly respectable portion of our banking institutions are, it affords me unfeigned pleasure to state, exempted from all blame on account of this second delinquency.
• Sometimes they attribute some delinquency to us, because they think they can, in this way, gratify another man.
• Colored delinquency is left to ripen into crime, with little interference from public or private philanthropy.
• Contemporary philanthropy, I believe, recognizes that extreme poverty and overcrowded slums are veritable breeding-grounds of epidemics, disease, delinquency and dependency.
• Loss of fortune, therefore, or loss of some dear friend on whom another was much dependent, is punished hardly less severely than physical delinquency.
• His later treachery has made him justly the object of bitter popular odium, inasmuch as his delinquency was aggravated by his former professions of loyalty.
• With honest simplicity Hood illustrated his argument by his own delinquency.
• And you are unfairly dealt with when you are called on to appreciate the present sufferings of the husband by the present guilt, delinquency, and degradation of his wife.
• They should not stop with the mere negation of disease, degeneracy, delinquency, and dependency.
• Sanborn had no knowledge of any delinquency, except as to about 150 of them.
• For an alleged official delinquency, he had been court-martialed near the close of the War of 1812, and sentenced to a suspension of five years from his command.
• Instantly, without waiting for proof, the delinquency of the President was heralded in every form of utterance.
• JUVENILE DELINQUENCY A woman left her baby in its carriage at the door of a department-store.
• It is not justifying your anger by their misconduct, but it is converting your ill-will into their delinquency.
• It is therefore just, as well as politic, that the loss should attach upon the delinquency.
• But I tell the right honorable gentleman, that controlled depravity is not innocence, and that it is not the labor of delinquency in chains that will correct abuses.
• This evidence of his early delinquency now confronted McGinnis as he stepped into the shop for the first time in these years.
• He stated this to himself clearly, admitting what delinquency it carried.
• But on any specific matter of delinquency in its government you are as capable of judging as if the same thing were done at your door.
• The revolution commenced in something plausible, in something which carried the appearance at least of punishment of delinquency or correction of abuse.
• If in these we are behind the age, our delinquency must be atoned by disaster and wasted lives.
• Instead of talking about juvenile delinquency today we are beginning to comprehend the larger meaning of parental and community delinquency.
• The majority of the remaining cases were due to parental delinquency, or neglect of the father and mother.
• Since the girl had moved on to avoid him, he had become alive to a delinquency that was more of a sensation than an admission.
• The watchfulness begins to be offensive only, where delinquency is begun.
• Many of these children whose relatives have obviously contributed to their delinquency are helped by the enforcement of the adult delinquency law.
• She was no accountant, but was that a crime, a delinquency? A man was only too lucky to obtain a wife like Natalie without a penny.
• If the persons tried do not show good cause for their delinquency, they are fined in such sums as the law prescribes.
• And, hardened as he was, Garvington did not wish his wife and Lambert to become acquainted with his delinquency.

Similar words containing LINQUEN without suffix cy and without prefix de

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