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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.

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  • 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.

 

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