Word Finder - delinquents

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One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.

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A person who has not paid his or her debts.

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A term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642-1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

It was found also that such delinquents were subjected to discipline according to the rules of the church to which they belonged.

The House resumed the Debate upon the Bill for Sale of the Estates of several delinquents.

State penal and charitable institutions include soldiers' and sailors' homes at Grand Island and Milford, an Institute for the Blind at Nebraska City (1875), an Institute for the Deaf and Dumb at Omaha (1867), an Institute for Feeble Minded Youth at Beatrice (1885), an Industrial School for Juvenile Delinquents (boys) at Kearney (1879), a Girls' Industrial School at Geneva (1881), an Industrial Home at Milford (1887) for unfortunate and homeless girls guilty of a first offence, asylums or hospitals for the insane at Lincoln (1869), Norfolk (1886) and Hastings (1887), an Orthopedic Hospital (1905) for crippled, ruptured and deformed children and a state penitentiary (1867), both at Lincoln.

An Ordinance for the further and better regulating the Sequestrations of Papists and Delinquents Estates, was this Day read the Third time.

The quiet couples slurping noodles after dark on verandas will become rioting, spitting, drug- taking delinquents.

Even after the establishment of the juvenile justice system toward the end of the nineteenth century, most runaways were regarded as delinquents, and the home situations from which they had fled received little scrutiny.

Children who steal are not necessarily delinquents; however, children over the age of 15 who steal may have serious underlying troubles that need to be dealt with by a mental health professional.

Uh-huh, and there weren't so many juvenile delinquents then either.

There is also a correctional school at Lima devoted to the education and training of youthful delinquents.

The program deals with the second childhood of a group of aging delinquents.

Where juvenile delinquents white man to they became engraved such fund managers.

In Addis Ababa, girls and boys cited examples of girls being accosted on the way to or from school by young male delinquents.

Nikki Lennox (Vicki Mathios) One of the teenage delinquents sent on a day scheme to Wentworth to " scare them straight " .

Unguided and alone, the boy teams up with other inner-city delinquents and is soon part of a system of crime and punishment.

Teenage delinquents can be a problem in high schools and in local communities.

Delinquents are becoming more and more common in all areas, whether it is a big city or a small town.

A swarm of commissioners ransacked the provinces in search of delinquents, and the council sat daily for hours, condemning the accused, almost without a hearing, in batches together.

Each county elects a judge of probate for a term of four years; he has original concurrent jurisdiction with the circuit court in matters of probate, and has original jurisdiction in all cases of juvenile delinquents and dependents.