Synonyms for dereliction
ˌdɛr əˈlɪk ʃəndere·lic·tion

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1. dereliction

   Synonyms:
   abandonment, failure, shortcoming, desertion, relinquishment, neglect

   Antonyms:
   performance, observance, adherence, attention

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1. delinquency, dereliction, willful neglectnoun

   a tendency to be negligent and uncaring

   "he inherited his delinquency from his father"; "his derelictions were not really intended as crimes"; "his adolescent protest consisted of willful neglect of all his responsibilities"

   Synonyms:
   juvenile delinquency, willful neglect, delinquency

2. derelictionnoun

   willful negligence

   Synonyms:
   willful neglect, delinquency

Matched Categories

1. • Negligence
   • Wrongdoing

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1. derelictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   abandonment, renunciation, desertion, relinquishment

2. derelictionnoun

   Synonyms:
   faithlessness, failure in duty

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1. List of paraphrases for "dereliction":

   breach, non-compliance, abandonment

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1. Tania Owen:

   George Gascon’s failure to protect our most vulnerable communities is a complete dereliction of his foremost duty as a district attorney, and he must be removed from office immediately before he can do any more damage, what George Gascon is doing is not criminal justice reform; it is the outright destruction of our criminal justice system and the very laws meant to protect us.

2. Vanita Gupta:

   Those in positions of power have a responsibility to speak out against hateful rhetoric that does tangible harm to our most marginalized communities, anything less than wholesale public condemnation of hate speech -- especially stemming from our own government -- is a dereliction of our duty as Americans.

3. Jennifer Harrison:

   We will not sit idly by and watch a bloodbath ensue because of Alvin Bragg's dereliction of duty and failure to enforce the laws.

4. Joe Rojas:

   This was really a dereliction of duty, there's no way he should have been put in that institution.

5. Andy Biggs:

   President Biden and Vice President Harris have sent an unequivocal message that they prefer illegal immigrants over Americans, their radical agenda has erased our southern border. Americans suffer from the Biden policy which has encouraged more than one million illegal border crossings this year which has produced increased human, sex, and drug trafficking. The American people condemn the Biden Administration’s dereliction of duty.