(n.) An offense or transgression against law; (Scots Law) an offense of a lesser degree; a misdemeanor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The 'extended suicide' is regarded as the most typical and simultaneously most tragic delict.
(2) Main criminal offences were delicts of property, bodily harm and resistance to police actions.
(3) The analysis suggests that: In young people of any age-group the absolute number of alcohol delicts shows a considerable increase during the last 10 years (1965--1975).
(4) Flight after an accident is a typical alcohol delict.
(5) In the majority of cases sexual delicts of adolescents reveal a far more extensive disturbance in their individual and social development.
(6) An analysis of the different delicts yielded as result a clear preponderance of larcency of money, fraud and embezzlement - in comparison with desertion and absence without official leave.
(7) Non-purposive delinquency of toxicomaniacs includes arson, affray, group delicts, agressive violence etc.
(8) Such delicts are committed under the direct influence of psychotropic drugs with the motivation of "harsh play" when the transpassers do not care the consequences of their delict.
(9) In more than 50% the main traffic delict was drunken driving discovered by police control.
(10) The present investigation has been based on the study of 33 toxicomaniacs (average age 18 yrs 3 mos) who had committed a total of 156 delicts.
(11) Based on the examination of 238 patients having institutional sexuological treatment, the author assessed the basic differences between homosexual sexual delinquents, sexual aggressors, polymorphic sexual delinquents, paedophiliacs and exhibitionists as regards the number of sentences on account of sexual delicts in the case-history, the presence of alcohol during the sexual delict, antialcoholic treatment in the past, the number of sexuological treatments received, age when the first sexual abnormal manifestations occurred, the age when first prosecuted on account of sexual delinquency and the diagnosis of the deviation.
(12) The prophylaxis and clearing-up rate of deviating sexual behaviour of adolescents could be favourably influenced, if doctors, teachers and judicial administrators had a better knowledge of the phenomenology of sexual delicts as well as sexual delinquents.
(13) Comparing the results of the individual delicts in 1965 and 1975 there was no significant difference in the level of the blood alcohol-concentration-groups.
(14) It was further examined statements concerning characteristics of the delict and the experimental situation itself.
(15) The author conceives sexual deviation as a mental disorders which in some instances may reduce the imputability of the person in relation to the sexual delict.
(16) According to the common drinking- and leisure behaviour most of the alcohol delicts happened at weekends around midnight.
(17) Criminal acts, such as sexual and property delicts arising from an acting out of inner tension, may occur in anxiety or manic-depressive states of a mixed character.
(18) In the case of so-called purposive delinquency delicts are usually not committed under a direct influence of psychotropic drugs.
(19) The purpose is to obtain a new dose of the relevant drug, and the delicts include, e.g.
Wrongful
Definition:
(a.) Full of wrong; injurious; unjust; unfair; as, a wrongful taking of property; wrongful dealing.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this book, he dismisses Freud's idea of penis envy - "Freud got it spectacularly wrong" - and said "women don't envy the penis.
(2) But this is to look at the outcomes in the wrong way.
(3) It is not that the concept of food miles is wrong; it is just too simplistic, say experts.
(4) "But this is not all Bulgarians and gives a totally wrong picture of what the country is about," she sighed.
(5) No malignant tumour failed to be diagnosed (100% reliable), the anatomopathological examination of specimens in benign conditions was never wrong (100% reliable).
(6) The Bible treats suicide in a factual way and not as wrong or shameful.
(7) "That attracted all the wrong sorts for a few years, so the clubs put their prices up to keep them out and the prices never came down again."
(8) More than half of carers said they were neglecting their own diet as a result of their caring responsibilities, while some said they were eating the wrong things because of the stress they are under and more than half said they had experienced problems with diet and hydration.
(9) A final experiment confirmed a prediction from the above theory that when recalling the original sequence, omissions (recalling no word) will decrease and transpositions (giving the wrong word) will increase as noise level increases.
(10) Other details showed the wrong patient undergoing a heart procedure, and the wrong patient given an invasive colonoscopy to check their bowel.
(11) Mulholland and others have tried to portray the Leeds case in terms of right or wrong.
(12) And of course, as the articles are shared far and wide across the apparently much-hated web, they become gospel to those who read them and unfortunately become quasi-religious texts to musicians of all stripes who blame the internet for everything that is wrong with their careers.
(13) And I was a little surprised because I said: ‘Doesn’t sound like he did anything wrong there.’ But he did something wrong with respect to the vice-president and I thought that was not acceptable.” So that’s clear.
(14) The fitting element to a Cabrera victory would have been thus: the final round of the 77th Masters fell on the 90th birthday of Roberto De Vicenzo, the great Argentine golfer who missed out on an Augusta play-off by virtue of signing for the wrong score.
(15) "I don't think that people are waiting for the wrong solution."
(16) I can’t hear those wrong notes any more,” she says.
(17) "This crowd of charlatans ... look for one little thing they can say is wrong, and thus generalise that the science is entirely compromised."
(18) Eleven women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, with 20 listed as critically ill, after a state-run mass sterilisation campaign went horribly wrong.
(19) in horses is imputed to the small numbers of people involved in the work, to the conservation of the authorities responsible for breeding, to the wrong choice of stallions for A.I.
(20) The Sun editor also said his newspaper was wrong to use the word "tran" in a headline to describe a transexual, saying that he felt that "I don't know this is our greatest moment, to be honest".