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UK
/dˈɛɹɪlˌɪkt/
]
[ US /ˈdɛɹəˌɫɪkt/ ]
[ US /ˈdɛɹəˌɫɪkt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
worn and broken down by hard use
a woebegone old shack
a flea-bitten sofa
a creaky shack
a run-down neighborhood
a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape -
in deplorable condition
a street of bedraggled tenements
a ramshackle old pier
a broken-down fence
a tumble-down shack -
forsaken by owner or inhabitants
weed-grown yard of an abandoned farmhouse -
failing in what duty requires
derelict (or delinquent) in his duty
remiss of you not to pay your bills
neglectful of his duties
NOUN
- a ship abandoned on the high seas
- a person without a home, job, or property
How To Use derelict In A Sentence
- On her right stood an empty cottage, fast becoming derelict.
- Our school is still fantastic inside but from the outside, with its boarded up windows, it appears gloomy, horrible and derelict.
- A derelict synagogue may not be visible in the bazaar, but a Jewish cemetery is accessible on the city outskirts. Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanon's Jews: Loyalty to Whom? BBC Documentary Tracks Vanished Community
- Around 140 luxury homes are being built around the course as part of a deal to save one of Ireland's great stately homes from dereliction.
- The worst dereliction is tolerance of rave parties where illegal drugs are sold and used, and minors are sexually exploited. Sound Politics: Seattle needs more police; and needs to use better sense in deploying the ones it already has
- Then the regional financial crisis hit and suddenly the air was full of accusations of bureaucratic ineptitude, corruption and outright dereliction of duty.
- If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home. Stealth Jihad by Frank Gaffney, Jr. and The American Legion « Mark12ministries’s Weblog
- In general it has to be dumped in derelict and unguarded houses, where such of it as is not looted is ruined by damp. As I Please
- Why are the peelers quizzing this innocent young derelict?
- Apologies should be taken automatically as acknowledgement of personal complicity in the crime or dereliction.