dereliction
Collocations
3ADJ.
terrible
VERB + DERELICTION
court-martialed, like, scolded, seems
DERELICTION + NOUN
disobedience, duty
Definitions
noun
Willful neglect of one's duty.
The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.
What he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
The act of abandoning something, or the state of being abandoned.
To this we must contend with prayer , with actual dereliction and seposition of all our other affairs
There is much sad evidence, too, of the spoliation and dereliction of vanished industry: tips, slag-heaps and derelict colliery-screens among which the ubiquitous, nomad mountain sheep graze unconcernedly.
Land gained from the water by a change of water-line.
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Synonyms
noun — a tendency to be negligent and uncaring
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Example Bank
4The new soldier did not clean his cabin and was scolded for dereliction and disobedience.
WiktionaryWhat he did was a terrible dereliction of duty.
WiktionaryAnd his final act—leaving the Watch to accompany Tormund and the Wildlings back into the woods North of the wall—no longer seems like a dereliction of duty. It’s the recovery of duty, found by a man w
WiktionaryHe was court-martialed for dereliction of duty.
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