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derelict

adjective as in careless, negligent

adjective as in deserted, forsaken

noun as in destitute or down-and-out person

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Example Sentences

We stood on the rooftop of a derelict farmhouse meters away from a Turkish tank and a razor wire fence marking the end of Turkey.

Today, all that remains of these Jewish holiday centers is a constellation of derelict buildings.

He remembers, for example, living in Brooklyn Heights and trying to get booze from the “derelict liquor story nearby.”

The Daily Pic: In 1904 in Manhattan, the great Guastavino Co. gave palatial roofing to a subway station that's now derelict.

There were housing projects, and some truly derelict hotels where the very-down-on-their-luck lived.

A fair ship on a fair sea soon parts company with a derelict—unless it tows it.

Yet he had gone twice in the fortnight at her call to help her through stormy nights with the derelict.

Erdil is a tiny derelict Christian village situated in the Oramar valley a little above its confluence with the Zab.

A dead ship, a derelict, come to them by merest chance from some unthinkably remote star.

Eyes turned curiously on the shambling derelict, but the only expression on Newt's face was one of surly defiance to the world.

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On this page you'll find 98 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to derelict, such as: delinquent, slack, behindhand, disregardful, irresponsible, and lax.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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