delinquent's Usage Examples:

"The Board of Charities also had supervision of the State Training School for (delinquent) Girls (1893) at Geneva, and of the St Charles School for (delinquent) Boys (1901) at St Charles.

For example, in California, licenses for real estate salespersons, brokers, and appraisers can be revoked, suspended, or denied to applicants who are delinquent in child support payments.

A Juvenile Court and a Board of Children's Guardians have extensive jurisdiction over dependent and delinquent children, and a general supervision of all charities and corrections is vested in a Board of Charities, consisting of five members appointed by the president of the United States.

For a long time Hainan was the refuge of the turbulent classes of China and the place of deportation for delinquent officials.

There is also a correctional school at Lima devoted to the education and training of youthful delinquents.

There are also county courts, consisting of one judge who serves for four years; in some counties probate courts have been established, and in counties of more than 500,000 population juvenile courts for the trial and care of delinquent children are provided for.

slurping noodles after dark on verandas will become rioting, spitting, drug- taking delinquents.

The program deals with the second childhood of a group of aging delinquents.

The two schools are not places of punishment, but reformatory schools for delinquent boys (from 8 to 16 years of age) and girls (from 6 to 16 years), who have been committed by the courts for violations of law, and, in the case of girls, who, by force of circumstances or associations, are " in manifest danger of becoming outcasts of society.

Anthropometry >>Lombroso, Antropometria di 400 delinquenti (1872); Roberts, Manual of Anthropometry (1878); Ferri, Studi comparati di antropometria (2 vols.

The quiet couples slurping noodles after dark on verandas will become rioting, spitting, drug- taking delinquents.

In 1642 he was ordered into custody as a delinquent; thereafter he took refuge in Oxford, and ultimately returned to London to the house of William Fuller (1580?-1659), dean of Ely, whose daughter Jane was his second wife.

Synonyms:

neglectful, negligent, remiss, derelict,

Antonyms:

good person, careful, attentive, inhabited, diligent,