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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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"Delinquency" Quotes from Famous Books

... those of the excise, descend into the cellar. None are more formidable, nor who more eagerly seize on pretexts for delinquency[5234]. "Let a citizen charitably bestow a bottle of wine on a poor feeble creature and he is liable to prosecution and to excessive penalties. . . . The poor invalid that may interest his curate in the begging of a bottle of wine for him will undergo a trial, ruining not alone ...

— The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 1 (of 6) - The Ancient Regime • Hippolyte A. Taine

... We must forgive them much, for they love much—and many. Their hate is properly only love turned inside out. Sometimes they attribute some delinquency to us, because they think they can in this way gratify another man. When they write, they have always one eye on the paper and the other on a man; and this is true of all authoresses, except the Countess Hahn-Hahn, who ...

— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... should see Ogier again, he would give him the preference over Guyon, she had adroitly persuaded him to delay rendering his homage to Charlemagne, till now four years had passed away since the last renewal of that ceremony. Charlemagne, irritated at this delinquency, drew closer the bonds of Ogier's captivity until he should receive a response from the King of Denmark to a fresh summons which he caused ...

— The Junior Classics, V4 • Willam Patten (Editor)

... under the public eye. Young people in the country marry at an earlier age than in the city, and husband and wife are normally faithful. Crime in the country is peculiar to degenerate communities, elsewhere it is rare. Juvenile delinquency occurs, and there are not such helpful influences as the juvenile court of the city; on the other hand, most boys are in touch with home influences, feel the restraint of a law-abiding community, and know that lawbreaking is almost certain to be ...

— Society - Its Origin and Development • Henry Kalloch Rowe

... ignominy would be treatment much too good. Was there nothing else that could be done to him? Had he incurred no legal pains and penalties? Could it be that the statutes of the land were so remiss as to have affixed no punishment to such delinquency? Monster; how basely ...

— Life And Adventures Of Martin Chuzzlewit • Charles Dickens

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