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derelict
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derelict as in:  derelict in her duty

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Her husband had lost his job due to dereliction.†  (source)
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    It would be a dereliction of duty if I were to let someone of your obvious gifts slip through my fingers.†  (source)
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    bridle and domesticate celerity trattoria wise guy = Kpymoiinauatt propinquity Dereliction of duty.†  (source)
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    When three kids went out the gate in the rear of a bakery truck, fifteen-year-olds, junior Alley Boys as the Alhambras were sometimes called, I thought it was a tremendous, what, a dereliction, a collapse, bunched in the back of a Silvercup truck—I was shocked at the level of neglect.†  (source)
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    Dereliction of duty!†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    I seated myself in a chair, and rocked to and fro, passing harsh judgment on my many derelictions of duty; from which, it struck me then, all the misfortunes of my employers sprang.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tions", converts a verb into a plural noun that denotes results of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in actions, illustrations, and observations.
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    Incredibly, he will never be punished for this gross dereliction of duty.†  (source)
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    I'm afraid that soon after my meeting with Larry, I was guilty of a grave dereliction.†  (source)
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    A clerk was instructed to read the charges: dereliction of duty, desertion of a post in time of war, aiding the enemy, abandonment of prisoners, theft of government property, conspiracy, and murder.†  (source)
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    She felt that she couldn't leave her job in the middle of the Reston crisis, that it would be a dereliction of her post.†  (source)
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    About 2:00 P.M. Ootek woke up and made amends for his dereliction of duty by brewing me a pot of tea.†  (source)
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    The dereliction of duty was too terrible for words.†  (source)
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    "Madame," replied Villefort, with a mournful smile, "I have already had the honor to observe that my father has—at least, I hope so—abjured his past errors, and that he is, at the present moment, a firm and zealous friend to religion and order—a better royalist, possibly, than his son; for he has to atone for past dereliction, while I have no other impulse than warm, decided preference and conviction."†  (source)
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    But I'm going to report you for dereliction of duty and you won't even know what hit you.†  (source)
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derelict as in:  derelict ship

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The report indicated that at that time Detroit had over 70,000 derelict buildings that should be torn down.
derelict = in terrible condition and/or abandoned
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    The derelict warehouse on the corner had stood empty for many decades.
    derelict = abandoned and run-down
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    We want to put those derelict buildings to better use.
    derelict = run-down and/or abandoned
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    A week later he was back at the derelict vehicle, apparently without regret.  (source)
    derelict = in terrible condition (and abandoned)
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    Jemmy led the way through a tarred forest of wharf pilings and over a derelict river barge.  (source)
    derelict = in terrible condition and abandoned
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    Theo felt as dirty as the derelicts he spied on.†  (source)
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    We should never have come to this stinking derelict place.  (source)
    derelict = in terrible condition
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    Nobody except beggars, derelicts and the police-custody dead were cremated there.†  (source)
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    I shall send, in time for your next issue, further details of the derelict ship which found her way so miraculously into harbour in the storm.  (source)
    derelict = abandoned
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    I was able to walk the streets like the younger derelicts.†  (source)
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    They walked out the long spit of tidal mud where a small boat lay half buried and stood there looking at it. It was altogether derelict.  (source)
    derelict = in terrible condition (and abandoned)
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    From time to time he expertly knifed off a sandwich for one of the derelicts within.†  (source)
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    Does any goodness linger in this last derelict stronghold?†  (source)
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    You and I and everyone else are a snap of a finger away from the derelicts with sparkling eyes and blackened skin who stumble forward knowing that they'll be gone in a week or two.†  (source)
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