(n.) Failing in duty; offending by neglect of duty.
(n.) One who fails or neglects to perform his duty; an offender or transgressor; one who commits a fault or a crime; a culprit.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among 371 adult sexual delinquents, there were only 14 women.
(2) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(3) However, prosocial aspects of films dealing with delinquency may exert a positive influence on the juvenile delinquent.
(4) Relationships between MMPI scales and criteria were evaluated to determine if the MMPI is racially biased with a juvenile delinquent population.
(5) A comparative analysis of the cases indicates that penal care measures are predominantly effective in those cases where the delinquents are subjected to intensive expert diagnosis, therapeutic care and vocational counselling and vocational aidmeasures at the commencement, during and subsequent to their respective periods of confinement.
(6) By definition, illicit drug use is delinquent behavior.
(7) The drawings of 20 male adolescent delinquents were compared to a group of 20 normal male adolescents in order to discover whether any hypothesized differences existed.
(8) While violent behavior and delinquency in youth have been extensively described, the different patterns of violence that adolescents are subjected to in their families are far less known.
(9) How self-reported delinquency is scored is not as critical as previously thought.
(10) The author gives a critical account of the development of views regarding the imputability of sexual delinquents and the possibility of protective therapy in sexual deviations.
(11) This study examined recidivism rates in work-oriented (N = 30) and communication-oriented (N = 30) juvenile delinquency programs for males.
(12) Alcohol and drug use were measured by means of the Delinquency Checklist (DCL), a self-report measure of delinquent behavior first developed by Short and Nye.
(13) The effectiveness of a time-out intervention for adolescent psychiatric patients, adjudicated (delinquent) youth, and behaviorally disordered youngsters was explored in this study.
(14) The delinquency rate for student loans is currently about 11%, and has been sharply rising since 2005, according to Bloomberg data.
(15) A comparative study of the syndrome of fantasy-making was carred out in 65 juvenile delinquents (psychopathy, early organic lesions of the brain, schizophrenia).
(16) However, the young drinking offenders did differ from the delinquents on measures of social environment.
(17) In order to prevent patients from stealing, two categories of delinquents are to be taken into consideration: Those who suffer from somatic diseases and psychoses, e.g.
(18) The opposition of specialists avoided the enforcement of the 1953 23rd december law settling the compulsory therapy of drug-addicted delinquents in France.
(19) The performance of institutionalized delinquent youngsters on paired associate learning tasks was investigated to determine whether level of aspiration (LOA) statements were associated with improved performance under varying feedback conditions.
(20) Clinical and epidemiological evidence is presented indicating that many more black delinquent children and their families fail to receive needed psychiatric and medical services than do white delinquents.
Royalist
Definition:
(n.) An adherent of a king (as of Charles I. in England, or of the Bourbons in france); one attached to monarchical government.
Example Sentences:
(1) Similarly, he was an intimate of Vuk Draskovic, the royalist opposition leader and the main opposition figure in the early 90s, but broke with him.
(2) As I said, I'm not much of royalist (I'm not even interested enough to be anti-monarchy), but purely on a human level, let's hope that the child is healthy and happy.
(3) By 2pm around 200 royalists and tourists had gathered outside St James's.
(4) Royalists are hoping that Felipe VI, so far untouched by any scandals, will help bolster the popularity of Spain's monarchy, whose approval ratings have hovered at record lows in recent years.
(5) General Prawit Wongsuwon, appointed as chairman of the advisory board, and General Anupong Paojinda, appointed to handle international relations, are well known royalists who, together with Prayuth, helped stage the 2006 coup that deposed the former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, a telecoms billionaire who is still at the heart of Thailand's political instability.
(6) The monarchy’s foundations are less secure than is often assumed, which is why royalists should be worried that the Queen will leave behind an institution as unreformed as it is undemocratic.
(7) He was an unabashed royalist, and made no secret of his pleasure in attending lunch at Buckingham Palace with the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh.
(8) The prospect of restoring queen’s counsel in NSW and other states may recede, now that the tide in Canberra has turned against royalist flourishes.
(9) Thousands of anti-royalist protesters massed in the streets after Juan Carlos's abdication announcement.
(10) Popularly viewed as a motley ragbag of racist colonialists, Vichy sympathisers, antisemites and oddball royalists, Le Pen’s party was dismissed as a nasty coalition of history’s losers.
(11) Thierry Gaulot, a newly elected FN council member for Metz, around 35 miles from Forbach, insists that this is no longer about the old preoccupations of the French royalist right.
(12) The Newman government in Queensland with its frantically royalist attorney general Jarrod Bleijie, was a case in point.
(13) Legal action having failed, they duly swirled around the royalist end of Fleet Street .
(14) A career soldier known as a hardline royalist, Prayuth had been due to retire last year and spend his salad days playing golf.
(15) The contribution to the treatment of head injuries from Richard Wiseman, a Royalist surgeon during the English Civil War culminating in the battle of Worcester (1651), is presented.
(16) Recent attempts to reform the law have met fervent resistance by royalists, among them Prayuth, who according to the Associated Press told critics: "If you guys play hardball I'll have no choice but to do so too."
(17) Critics of the law say it has been used as a weapon against political enemies of the royalist elite and their military allies and now targets those opposed to the coup.
(18) There is, regardless of anyone's position on the royal family – and we do, on any 100-metre stretch, span the gamut: I met staunch royalists, fervent republicans, and a Polish guy called Bart who said: "I have no strong feelings, but I think it's nice for you to feel what you feel" – an underpinning idea that the Queen's job is quite hard.
(19) It sounds quite Scandinavian, which must be the way even British royalists will be heading when the Queen makes her last journey to the chapel at Windsor.
(20) Thailand’s ultra-royalist generals have long used their self-appointed position as defenders of the monarchy to justify coups and political interventions in the country’s often turbulent politics.