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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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    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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    And even though the president of the United States was shot to death after Parker left his post, the officer was never convicted of dereliction of duty—and, incredibly, was even allowed to remain on the police force.†  (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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    I'm afraid that soon after my meeting with Larry, I was guilty of a grave dereliction.†  (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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    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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    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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    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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    Dereliction of duty!†  (source)
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    The dereliction of duty was too terrible for words.†  (source)
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    It was, indeed, the hour of day when all the prisoners of the town realized their dereliction and each was thinking that something, no matter what, must be done to hasten their deliverance.†  (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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    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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    We should never have come to this stinking derelict place.  (source)
    derelict = in terrible condition
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    Theo felt as dirty as the derelicts he spied on.†  (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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    Nobody except beggars, derelicts and the police-custody dead were cremated there.†  (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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    I was able to walk the streets like the younger derelicts.†  (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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    How had I gone from AP everything to being lumped in with a derelict like Kotku?†  (source)
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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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