Delinquent is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DELINQUENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an offender, esp. a young criminal
• a delinquent person
• Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
• One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
• a young offender
• an offender, esp a young criminal
ADJECTIVE:
• failing in duty; of or concerning a bad debt or debtor
• (typically of a young person) tending to commit crime, particularly minor crime
• in arrears
• guilty of a misdeed
• failing in what duty requires
• past due; not paid at the scheduled time
• failing in one's duty.

Words related to DELINQUENT

delinquently25 delinquents21

Words that contain DELINQUENT

delinquents21 delinquently25 nondelinquent23 nondelinquents24

How to use DELINQUENT in a sentence

• Thus the delinquent is almost sure to escape, and, instead of being punished, is not unfrequently rewarded for the adventure, as was the case in the following instance.
• Smith regretted that the deficiency of evidence prevented him sending the young delinquent for trial, and thereby rescuing him from an ignominious death, and told Mrs.
• They would always be more ready to pursue the milder course of putting themselves upon an equal footing with the delinquent members by an imitation of their example.
• There are now so many forms, reports, and examinations, that several months may be employed before the person of a delinquent, however notorious his guilt, can be secured.
• The word that should have come from Searle was still delinquent.
• Only those who lived in the house of the delinquent were liable to punishment, because they all were suspected of knowledge of the theft.
• If the delinquent refused to pay according to this sentence, war was declared between the villages or the factions.
• I shall never forget my visit that Sunday afternoon to a detention school for delinquent girls.
• Guthrie, the delinquent boldly answered that it was not the duty of the pastor to charge his people with witchcraft, sorcery, and turning of the riddle.
• Warren Hastings has not left substance enough in India to nourish such another delinquent.
• Yorke was so freely censured, that he was resolved to punish the delinquent.
• The supposed delinquent was dismissed and the cloud of suspicion rested upon him wherever he went thereafter.
• They checked all the Items from the outlawed Note down to the Delinquent Tax Notice and then advised the Widow to pick out a nice lucrative Position in a Hand Laundry.
• He may mentally put himself in the position of the delinquent, and considering how he would wish to be treated, act accordingly.
• He talked with Simeon Woolaver, one of his tenants, about the delinquent rent, and gave Simeon a note to Baggs relative to taking some steers in settlement.
• This day they did not receive him as a counsellor or friend, but more like a delinquent.
• A subordinate may, indeed, try its delinquent member, and if guilty declare him expelled.
• The remaining delinquent was afterwards hanged at Hobart, where he gave a detailed and interesting narrative of the whole affair.
• He may slowly and cautiously, and even tenderly, approach a delinquent.
• Delinquent girls under sixteen are now considered, in all enlightened communities, subjects for the Juvenile Court.
• They are securing the appointment of educated women as probation officers in the courts which deal with delinquent women and girls.
• Nor was the process of the highest delinquent long protracted.
• The same advantages come to many, in spite of delinquent mothers, in the bracing habits of household labor, at least where mechanical improvements have not rendered it too easy.
• Naval Academy, had been found delinquent in that he had slighted the care of his equipment or of his room.
• In great wrath, he ordered the door to be shut, that no one might escape, and insisted on every one present being searched to discover the delinquent.
• The imprecations that were heaped on the head of the delinquent were many and deep, but it was no time for indecision.
• It is the practice of good-nature to overlook faults which have already, by the consequences, punished the delinquent.
• The neglected boy generally becomes the delinquent and the delinquent boy the criminal, so that what might be said about one might also be said about all.
• With one accord they all centred their gaze upon the unkempt delinquent.
• It is fallacious to suppose that the authorities here are gaining the mastery over the delinquent population.
• What is the use of punishing a delinquent for offences against the law if, the moment his sentence is completed, he is sent back again into the surroundings which led to his fall.
• Thus, in case of any defect, the delinquent may readily be found.
• Occasionally she heard from Arthur, who was still busy in search of the delinquent, and who always sent in his letter a substantial proof of his friendship and generosity.
• A book retained more than a week beyond the time limited may be sent for at the expense of the delinquent.

Similar words containing LINQU without suffix ent and without prefix de

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