delinquency

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: de=lin=quen=cy

OXFORD DICTIONARY

delinquency, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a a crime, usu. not of a serious kind; a misdeed. b minor crime in general, esp. that of young people (juvenile delinquency).
2 wickedness (moral delinquency; an act of delinquency).
3 neglect of one's duty.

Etymology

eccl. L delinquentia f. L delinquens part. of delinquere (as DELICT)

THESAURUS

delinquency

aberrance, aberrancy, abnormality, amorality, arrear, arrearage, arrears, atrocity, backsliding, bad debt, breach, carnality, crime, crime against humanity, criminality, deadly sin, decline, defalcation, default, defection, defectiveness, deficit, delinquence, dereliction, deviance, deviancy, disconformity, dishonor, dishonoring, disregard, enormity, error, evil, evil nature, failure, falling short, fault, felony, genocide, guilty act, heavy sin, illegality, immorality, imperfection, improperness, impropriety, impurity, inadequacy, inappropriateness, inattention, incorrectness, indecorousness, indecorum, indiscretion, inexpiable sin, inferiority, infraction, iniquity, injury, injustice, inobservance, insufficiency, lapse, laxity, malefaction, malfeasance, malum, minor wrong, misdeed, misdemeanor, misfeasance, moral delinquency, mortal sin, neglect, negligence, nonadherence, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity, nondischarge of debts, nonfeasance, nonfulfillment, nonobservance, nonpayment, nonperformance, nonremittal, offense, omission, outrage, oversight, peccability, peccadillo, peccancy, prodigality, protest, protested bill, recidivism, repudiation, short measure, shortage, shortcoming, shortfall, sin, sin of commission, sin of omission, sinful act, sinfulness, slight, slip, slump, tort, transgression, trespass, trip, unangelicalness, unchastity, uncleanness, uncollectible, underage, unfitness, unfittingness, ungodliness, ungoodness, unlawfulness, unmorality, unobservance, unrighteousness, unsaintliness, unseemliness, unsuitability, unutterable sin, unvirtuousness, venial sin, vice, viciousness, violation, wantonness, waywardness, weakness, wickedness, wrong, wrongdoing, wrongfulness, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

delinquency

Guilt

N guilt, guiltiness, culpability, criminality, criminousness, deviation from rectitude, sinfulness, misconduct, misbehavior, misdoing, misdeed, malpractice, fault, sin, error, transgression, dereliction, delinquency, indiscretion, lapse, slip, trip, faux pas, peccadillo, flaw, blot, omission, failing, failure, break, bad break!, capital crime, delictum, offense, trespass, misdemeanor, misfeasance, misprision, malefaction, malfeasance, malversation, crime, felony, enormity, atrocity, outrage, deadly sin, mortal sin, deed without a name, corpus delicti, guilty, to blame, culpable, peccable, in fault, at fault, censurable, reprehensible, blameworthy, uncommendable, illaudable, weighed in the balance and found wanting, exceptionable, in flagrante delicto, red-handed, in the very act, with one's hand in the cookie jar, cui prodest scelus in fecit, culpam paena premit comes, O would the deed were good!, responsibility prevents crimes se judice nemo noce, so many laws argues so many sins.