Word Meanings - DELINQUENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty. (more info) fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- + linquere to leave.

MALEFACTOR
1. An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal. 2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. H. Brooke. Fuller. Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
CRIMINALITY
The quality or state of being criminal; that which constitutes a crime; guiltiness; guilt. This is by no means the only criterion of criminality. Blackstone.
CRIMINAL
1. Guilty of crime or sin. The neglect of any of the relative duties renders us criminal in the sight of God. Rogers. 2. Involving a crime; of the nature of a crime; -- said of an act or of conduct; as, criminal carelessness. Foppish and fantastic
DELINQUENT
Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty. (more info) fail, be wanting in one's duty, do wrong; de- + linquere to leave.
OFFENDER
One who offends; one who violates any law, divine or human; a wrongdoer. I and my son Solomon shall be counted offenders. 1 Kings i. 21.
DELINQUENTLY
So as to fail in duty.
CRIMINALNESS
Criminality.
CULPRIT
Latin culpatus the accused, p. p. of L. culpare to blame. See 1. One accused of, or ar An author is in the condition of a culprit; the public are his judges. Prior. 2. One quilty of a fault; a criminal.
CRIMINALLY
In violation of law; wickedly.
CRIMINALIST
One versed in criminal law.
DISCRIMINAL
In palmistry, applied to the line which marks the separation between the hand and the arm.