What's the difference between derelict and remiss?

Derelict


Definition:

  • (a.) Given up or forsaken by the natural owner or guardian; left and abandoned; as, derelict lands.
  • (a.) Lost; adrift; hence, wanting; careless; neglectful; unfaithful.
  • (n.) A thing voluntary abandoned or willfully cast away by its proper owner, especially a ship abandoned at sea.
  • (n.) A tract of land left dry by the sea, and fit for cultivation or use.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) It put on the agenda the need to upgrade the existing urban fabric, and to use the derelict and brownfield sites in our cities before encroaching on the countryside.
  • (2) There are allegations of very, very serious dereliction of duty and of wrongdoing by people in the police at the time who were investigating – it is alleged – some of the most grotesque crimes imaginable.” According to Newsnight, the officers involved said they did not know the senior figure who threatened them.
  • (3) Some of these are functions that would once have been taken on through squatting – and sometimes still are, as at Open House , a social centre recently and precariously opened in London's Elephant & Castle, an area torn apart by rampant gentrification, where estates are flogged off to developers with zero commitment to public housing and the aforementioned "shopping village" is located in a derelict estate.
  • (4) "It will be a dereliction of duty by those considering the bids if they choose to write off half a billion pounds of public investment and go with a football-only solution rather than the multiuse facility that was promised."
  • (5) In between, the small downtown area is a shell of empty, crumbling shop fronts and derelict, boarded-up houses interspersed with the odd bar, ramshackle residential street and tracts of wasteland.
  • (6) She added that the superstore would have pulled business from the local high street and brought big lorries and heavy traffic to the site which sits next to Dreamland, Margate’s derelict amusement park which is being revived.
  • (7) A scramble is on to find suitable empty properties, from rooms in private homes, to sports halls and disused school buildings to derelict soldiers’ barracks, even inflatable circus tents.
  • (8) If we don't take these long-term decisions now we will be committing a serious dereliction of our duty to the future of this country."
  • (9) This 49-storey building has sat derelict in the city’s downtown for 17 years, after an economic crisis halted its costly development.
  • (10) It’s about why this government chose to not upgrade Don Dale and to throw children in a derelict male prison.” Lawrence said the problems of juveniles in NT prisons had to be addressed “by a system that’s properly resourced, providing nothing less than best practice which is acquitted by fully qualified and professionally trained staff, creating appropriate behavioural programs and education for adolescent offenders of various types and backgrounds”.
  • (11) In November, AUC confirmed that they planned to demolish at least 40% of the wall in order to tear down the derelict building behind it.
  • (12) During a recession in the 70s, London boroughs started buying up derelict, and even non-derelict, housing for the purposes of doing them up and letting them to council tenants; this, typically, is the outsourced version.
  • (13) The warehouses have no running water or sanitation, and the refugees and migrants live in derelict conditions, burning everything they can get their hands on to keep warm.
  • (14) In Poland , where temperatures have dropped to -22C, officials have been trying to direct homeless people away from derelict unheated buildings and into crammed shelters.
  • (15) In explaining the alcoholic process to the public, this fiction contributed to the general belief that the typical alcoholic was a Skid Row-like derelict.
  • (16) Mr Blair warned that failing to replace the current ageing plants would fuel global warming, endanger Britain's energy security and represent a dereliction of duty to the country.
  • (17) Thanks to the beneficence of its owner he and his allies have recently moved into a derelict 19th-century sea fort on the tiny island of Stack Rock, taking with them camping supplies and generators.
  • (18) The Senate and the House have been passive up until now and derelict in their responsibilities.
  • (19) Robert Morris, 34, is one of eight people of varying ages and backgrounds about to move into a derelict former children's care home in east London.
  • (20) He and the other new arrivals were put up in a derelict shack, with plywood walls, a tin roof and no fan to ease the humid air.

Remiss


Definition:

  • (a.) Not energetic or exact in duty or business; not careful or prompt in fulfilling engagements; negligent; careless; tardy; behindhand; lagging; slack; hence, lacking earnestness or activity; languid; slow.
  • (n.) The act of being remiss; inefficiency; failure.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Definite tumor regression, improvement of some clinical symptoms, and continuous remission over 6 mo or more were observed in six, nine, and three patients, respectively.
  • (2) One hundred and ninety-nine children aged 7-14 and 177 adolescents in remission and minimal manifestations of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) were examined before and after fangotherapy with allowance for activity of the process, age-related reactivity.
  • (3) The plasma levels of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) were measured both during relapse and remission in 8 patients with idiopathic, minimal-lesion nephrotic syndrome.
  • (4) The objective remission rate was 67%, and a subjective response was observed in 75% of all cases.
  • (5) With a median follow-up of 6 years, 32 (20%) of 156 patients who achieved complete remission have relapsed.
  • (6) Therefore, a mortality analysis of overall survival time alone may conceal important differences between the forces of mortality (hazard functions) associated with distinct states of active disease, for example pre-remission state and first relapse.
  • (7) Seven patients relapsed after a CY-induced remission, but 5 of them became steroid responsive.
  • (8) Many reports of thyroid stimulating immunoglobulins (TSI) in relation to treatment of Graves' disease have been published and with variable results concerning prediction of permanent remission or relapse after therapy.
  • (9) The purpose of this study was to investigate a tumor cell vaccine delivered via peripheral lymphatics as maintenance therapy after induction of remission with chemotherapy.
  • (10) If severe seizures were prevented by antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) there was complete remission of the syndrome and repeat injection was necessary to reinitiate seizures.
  • (11) About 10% of the patients treated had “complete remission”, with no detectable cancer remaining - considered a cure if the patient is still cancer-free five years after diagnosis.
  • (12) In conclusion, not only TBII but also T3 release-stimulating antibodies may occur in a minority of patients with long-term remission of Graves' hyperthyroidism.
  • (13) In total, 22 out of 29 patients (76%) obtained remission.
  • (14) We observed complete remissions in five patients and partial remissions in 54, for a total remission rate.
  • (15) With a minimum review period of 6 months complete remission of synovitis was obtained in 20%, while 63% gained symptomatic relief, with some reduction of synovitis.
  • (16) A new feature is the highly effectiveness of all-trans retinoic acid treatment, a vitamin A derivative, for inducing complete remission in patients.
  • (17) The impact of this activation on the remission rate and duration, as well as survival in patients with NHL, warrants further investigation.
  • (18) Antiplatelet factors disappear upon achieving a clinical and hematological remission.
  • (19) Age at diagnosis (greater than or equal to 60 years vs less than or equal to 60 years), total number of involved sites, tumor bulk (mass size greater than or equal to 10 cm vs less than 10 cm), serum LDH (greater than or equal to 500 Units) and prompt achievement of complete remission following intensive combination regimens appear to be the most important variables predicting for cure in aggressive lymphomas.
  • (20) Standard criteria for staging and response evaluation, including pathologic documentation of remission status, are crucial.