dereliction

neglect; carelessness; trifling; negligence; omission, laches, default; supineness (inactivity); inattention; nonchalance (insensibility); imprudence, recklessness; slovenliness (disorder), (dirt) [more]; improvidence; noncompletion; inexactness (error)., paralelpsis [in rhetoric]., trifler, waiter on Providence; Micawber.

be negligent; take no care of (take care of [more]); neglect; let slip, let go; lay aside, set aside, cast aside, put aside; keep out of sight, put out of sight; lose sight of., overlook, disregard; pass over, pass by; let pass; blink; wink at, connive at; gloss over; take no note of, take no thought of, take no account of, take no notice of; pay no regard to; laisser aller., scamp; trifle, fribble; do by halves; cut; slight (despise); play with, trifle with; slur, skim, skim the surface; effleurer; take a cursory view of., slur over, skip over, jump over, slip over; pretermit, miss, skip, jump, omit, give the go-by to, push aside, pigeonhole, shelve, sink; ignore, shut one's eyes to, refuse to hear, turn a deaf ear to; leave out of one's calculation; not attend to, not mind; not trouble oneself about, not trouble one's head about, not trouble oneself with; forget; be caught napping (not expect); leave a loose thread; let the grass grow under one's feet., render neglectful; put off one's guard, throw off one's guard.

neglecting; unmindful, negligent, neglectful; heedless, careless, thoughtless; perfunctory, remiss., inconsiderate; uncircumspect, incircumspect; off one's guard; unwary, unwatchful, unguarded; offhand., supine (inactive); inattentive; insouciant (indifferent); imprudent, reckless; slovenly (disorderly), (dirty) [more]; inexact (erroneous); improvident.

negligently; hand over head, anyhow; in an unguarded moment (unexpectedly); per incuriam.

lawlessness; illicitness; breach of law, violation of law; disobedience; unconformity., arbitrariness; antinomy, violence, brute force, despotism, outlawry., mob law, lynch law, club law, Lydford law, martial law, drumhead law; coup d'etat; le droit du plus fort; argumentum baculinum. illegality, informality, unlawfulness, illegitimacy, bar sinister., trover and conversion; smuggling, poaching; simony.

offend against the law; violate the law; set the law at defiance, ride roughshod over, drive a coach and six through a statute; make the law a dead letter, take the law into one's own hands., smuggle, run, poach.

illegal, prohibited; unlawful, illegitimate; not allowed, illicit, contraband, actionable., unchartered, unconstitutional; unwarranted, unwarrantable; unauthorized; informal, unofficial; injudicial, extrajudicial., lawless, arbitrary; despotic, despotical; summary, irresponsible; unanswerable, unaccountable., null and void; a dead letter.

illegally; with a high hand, in violation of law.

change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose; afterthought., tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody; renunciation; abjuration, abjurement; defection (relinquishment); going over; apostasy; retraction, retractation; withdrawal; disavowal (negation); revocation, revokement; reversal; repentance; redintegratio amoris., coquetry; vacillation; backsliding; volte-face., turncoat, turn tippet; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U.S.], scab, mugwump [U.S.], recidivist., time server, time pleaser; timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter; weathercock (changeable); Janus.

change one's mind, change one's intention, change one's purpose, change one's note; abjure, renounce; withdraw from (relinquish); waver, vacillate; wheel round, turn round, veer round; turn a pirouette; go over from one side to another, pass from one side to another, change from one side to another, skip from one side to another; go to the rightabout; box the compass, shift one's ground, go upon another tack; do a 360., apostatize, change sides, go over, rat; recant, retract; revoke; rescind (abrogate); recall; forswear, unsay; come over, come round to an opinion; crawfish [U.S.], crawl [U.S.]., draw in one's borns, eat one's words; eat the leek, swallow the leek; swerve, flinch, back out of, retrace one's steps, think better of it; come back to one's first love, return to one's first love; turn over a new leaf (repent)., trim, shuffle, play fast and loose, blow hot and cold, coquet, be on the fence, straddle, bold with the hare but run with the hounds; nager entre deux eaux; wait to see how the cat jumps, wait to see how the wind blows.

changeful; irresolute; ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving; coquetting; revocatory, reactionary.