Dereliction meaning

Noun: dereliction

Pronunciation: (de-ru’lik-shun)

Dereliction meaning:

• A tendency to be negligent and uncaring
• The state of having been abandoned and become dilapidated

Synonyms: dilapidation, decrepitude, deterioration, delinquency

Quotations: Li Yizhong – Anyone who was found guilty of dereliction of duty will be harshly dealt with.

Praveen Khandelwal – A careful study of the court order reveals that to hide their own shortcomings and dereliction in duties, the MCD officials have perhaps not placed actual facts in the court and a weak case was fought.

Eugene Fidell – It obviously could lead to one of three things. Was there a negligent homicide? Was there a dereliction of duty? Was there a cover-up?

Charles Schumer – This is the right thing to do for the country. To let the Patriot Act lapse would have been a dereliction of duty.

Moni Law – They certainly have some serious concerns about dereliction of duty. The family lost a young child who was in the custody of King County, and they simply want to know why and whether there was a way to prevent it.

Sample sentences:

1. They will be charged with misconduct and dereliction of duty.
2. The openness of these networks makes us vulnerable to attacks by a hostile agent, vulnerabilities are of such a magnitude that to ignore them would be a dereliction of duty.
3. I have called for an investigation on that. We are going to find out, first of all, how the guards are behaving. Those responsible for the deportation of Zhang may be charged with infidelity in the custody of a prisoner and dereliction of duty.
4. Not only have there been recent cases of prisoners being tortured in detention, but to hold this huge number of people without basic legal safeguards is a gross dereliction of responsibility on the part of both the U.S. and UK forces.
5. It would be a dereliction of my duty if I do not speak out along with the tens of thousands, this war in Iraq is illegal, Bush should be impeached.
6. In the lead up to the Iraq war and its later conduct, I saw at a minimum, true dereliction, negligence and irresponsibility, at worse, lying, incompetence and corruption.
7. We need to be convinced that a dereliction of character has now been repaired and this type of deceit won’t happen again.
8. My playing sometimes got in the way of my filling the wood box. I was sometimes taken out of bed to do penance for such derelictions.
9. I have to say, if you read the reprimand, a fair reading is that Harry Schmidt intended to murder these people. They published it on the website. It is not what he agreed to Article 15 hearing for. He agreed to dereliction of duty, not murder. And your reputation is worth something.
10. Her derelictions are not really intended as crimes. She is a good human being.