Crossword-Solution: DELINQUENCY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Delinquency | n. | Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime. |
We have 37 clues for the answer “DELINQUENCY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| ANTISOCIAL acts committed during youth | 1 answer |
| a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | 1 answer |
| ASOCIAL acts committed during youth | 1 answer |
| TRUANCY during youth | 1 answer |
| STEALING during youth | 1 answer |
| Minor crime committed by young people | 1 answer |
| BEHAVIOUR disorders in children | 1 answer |
| BEING abandoned | 6 answers |
| misdoing | 12 answers |
| degeneracy | 14 answers |
| dereliction | 16 answers |
| Oversight | 17 answers |
| amorality | 26 answers |
| FALSE move | 27 answers |
| Guilt | 35 answers |
| DEBT ___ | 39 answers |
| negligence | 45 answers |
| indebtedness | 47 answers |
| Impropriety | 54 answers |
| Malfunction | 55 answers |
| Default | 56 answers |
| misdemeanour | 56 answers |
| Failing | 62 answers |
| misbehaviour | 65 answers |
| Forfeit | 65 answers |
| Violation | 67 answers |
| Misdeed | 69 answers |
| Rebellion | 72 answers |
| Wrongdoing | 72 answers |
| Immorality | 72 answers |
| Offence | 73 answers |
| Neglect | 74 answers |
| Iniquity | 74 answers |
| Crime __ | 75 answers |
| Error | 79 answers |
| Imperfection | 80 answers |
| Blemish | 81 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ARTEE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with DELINQUENCY (5)
But the moment his eyes fell on her he was ashamed of the thought, and knew it for what it really was: another pretext to lessen his own delinquency.
The story is told of some delinquency having been committed by a Highland smith, on whom justice must be done; but as the chief could not dispense with the smith, he generously offered to hang two weavers in his stead! At length a great armourer arose in the Highlands, who was able to forge armour that would resist the best Sheffield arrow-heads, and to make swords that would vie with the best weapons of Toledo and Milan.
The comparative stateliness of the apartments influenced him to an emotion, rather than to a belief, that where all was outwardly so good and proper there could not be quite that delinquency within which he had suspected.
The quoted footnote remarks: It is recorded that the Laird of Dunipace behaved with much apathy towards his daughter, whom he would not so much as see previous to her execution; nor yet would he intercede for her, through whose delinquency he reckoned his blood to be for ever dishonoured.
Howbeit, this, though far from the most aggravated, is perhaps the strangest, instance on record, of marital delinquency; and, moreover, as remarkable a freak as may be found in the whole list of human oddities.
Quotes with DELINQUENCY (3)
Stories have a way of changing faces. They are unruly things, undisciplined, given to delinquency and the throwing of erasers. This is why we must close them up into thick, solid books, so they cannot get out and cause trouble.
Children deprived of words become school dropouts; dropouts deprived of hope behave delinquently. Amateur censors blame delinquency on reading immoral books and magazines, when in fact, the inability to read anything is the basic trouble.
Escapism sold books, to be sure, but not nearly as many as were sold by exposing America’s flaws and making the average American reader (and book club member) look closely at his or her most cherished social assumptions. Americans might not be eager to accept integration, feminism, homosexuality, juvenile delinquency, and the drug culture — or to shoulder the blame for the existence of these problems — but they were certainly willing to read about them.