Delinquent
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.
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Delinquent Quotations
The martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth.
Frank Sinatra
All your Western theologies, the whole mythology of them, are based on the concept of God as a senile delinquent.
Tennessee Williams
The members of such a society consider that the transgression of a religious ordinance should be punished by civil penalties, and that the violation of a civil duty exposes the delinquent to divine correction.
Henry James Sumner Maine
When we first met, I was trying to put a band together. I asked around at school for other guys who wanted to play in a band. Someone told me about a juvenile delinquent they knew who played bongos.
Wayne Kramer
The one thing that's closest to my story is the thing about trying out for the juvenile delinquent role and getting it. That was the start of my acting career... which I've resumed, by the way.
Paul Mazursky
One good teacher in a lifetime may sometimes change a delinquent into a solid citizen.
Philip Wylie
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Delinquent Translations
delinquent in Swedish is brottslighet
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