Delinquent

Adjective

 * 1) Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
 * Fred is delinquent in making his car payment.
 * The company made a new effort to collect delinquent payments.
 * 1) Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense

Derived terms

 * delinquency
 * juvenile delinquent
 * moral delinquent

Noun

 * 1) One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
 * 2)  a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642  - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:criminal

Adverbs for Delinquent
criminally; woefully; viciously; indiscreetly; enormously; outrageously; censurably; reprehensibly; objectionably; villainously; wretchedly; monstrously; loosely; unpardonably; inexcusably; carelessly; deliberately; indifferently; purposely; wantonly; wickedly; accidentally; shamefully; scandalously; disreputably; heedlessly; rashly; foolishly.

Thesaurus
aberrant, abnormal, abominable, atrocious, bad person, behindhand, careless, criminal, crook, culprit, deceiver, defaulter, defaulting, derelict, deviant, disgraceful, disregardful, evil, evil man, evil person, evildoer, failing, felon, gangster, hardly the thing, hooligan, ignominious, illegal, improper, in arrear, in arrears, inappropriate, incorrect, indecorous, infamous, late, lawbreaker, lax, levanter, malefactor, malevolent, malfeasant, malfeasor, miscreant, misdemeanant, misdemeanist, misfeasor, mobster, neglectful, negligent, nonpayer, nonpaying, not done, not the thing, off-base, off-color, offender, out-of-line, outlaw, overdue, past due, public enemy, racketeer, regardless, remiss, roughneck, ruffian, sacrilegious, scandalous, shameful, shameless, sinful, sinner, slack, tax dodger, tax evader, terrible, thief, transgressor, undue, unfit, unfitting, unlawful, unpaid, unrighteous, unseemly, unsuitable, villain, welsher, wicked, worker of ill, wrong, wrongdoer, wrongful

Noun

 * Bulgarian: нарушител, виновник
 * Finnish:
 * French: délinquant


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term applied to royalists