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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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The couple has bought one of Detroit’s many derelict homes, which can cost just a few thousand dollars, and are renovating it themselves.

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Right now, what we still don't know about the remake could fill a haunted derelict infested with ravenous space zombies—and that's intentional.

Congress and the media would be derelict not to examine the decisions by Fauci and others that led to this collaboration.

The funds would be used for the renovation of derelict public schools, including remodeling and repainting deteriorating buildings and upgrading bathrooms to make them “more modern.”

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She encounters a derelict starship, hostile androids, and — of course — an Alien.

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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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