Sentence example with the word 'dereliction'

dereliction

abuse, breakaway, disaffection, fault, indiscretion, laxness, mortal sin, nonobservance, poor stewardship, slackness, unobservance

Definition n. a tendency to be negligent and uncaring

Last update: June 21, 2015


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Any dereliction of duty should be punished.   [Please select]

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From a distance we could see the house in a state of dereliction.   [Please select]

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"You are under arrest, sir, for disobedience of orders, for dereliction of duty."   [Please select]

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The discovery of Jacky's dereliction explained to her, in part at least, why she had never seen him or heard from him after that last evening at Sixty-ninth Street.   [Please select]

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'I aver to you, my worthy friend,' said the speaker, 'that it is a total dereliction of military discipline; and were you not as it were a tyro, your purpose would deserve strong reprobation.'   [Please select]

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