delinquent

How To Use delinquent In A Sentence

• Or he would lecture her on the bad manners and delinquent habits of the twins, as displayed on their infrequent visits to him. Times, Sunday Times
• But some two dozen states collect delinquent taxes on property by holding lien certificate auctions.
• She was invited to deliver a speech to the young delinquents last December.
• When we focus only on delinquent students, we allow some of the real culprits in this cycle of school degeneration to escape unscathed.
• Terms of cash on delivery or advance payment should be instituted for future sales to consistently delinquent accounts.
• During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia.
• You're a bit mealy-mouthed and quiet to be a ‘juvenile delinquent’.
• Many people feared that the 1969 Act was too radical and would make life too easy for the young delinquent. Introduction to Social Administration in Britain
• Traditional jazz, or trad jazz, was the pop music of the day and any kind of delinquent behaviour was usually reported as the work of ‘jazz fans’.
• It is sung, played, and written for the most part by cretinous goons, and by means of its almost imbecilic reiteration, and sly, lewd—in plain fact, dirty—lyrics . . . it manages to be the martial music of every sideburned delinquent on the face of the earth. A Renegade History of the United States