delinquent

Definitions

1. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes.
2. Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan
3. A person who has not paid their debts.
4. Of a payment or other financial obligation: late or otherwise unfulfilled
5. A royalist in the First English Civil War (1642-1646).
   derogatory, historical
6. Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense
7. One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws, or who acts against another's wishes
8. A person who has not paid their debts

Equivalents

Examples

“She had the consolation of knowing that any offence given to her dignity could be avenged on the delinquent who caused it, an act of justice which could not fail⟳ to be consolatory, since every one of her daughters had at times stood in stead of "guid King James's whipping-boy," when circumstances arose to disturb the equanimity of Lady Anne's imperious and irascible temper.”

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