Delinquent

(noun.) a young offender.

(adj.) past due; not paid at the scheduled time; 'an overdue installment'; 'a delinquent account' .

(adj.) guilty of a misdeed; 'delinquent minors' .

录入:温德尔

• They were not savage men either of them, though it appeared both were rigid, for they fined a delinquent who came considerably too late. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The separation of delinquent from semi-delinquent girls is a somewhat similar attempt to guard the weak. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• All the way to Stone Lodge, as with grave indignation he led the two delinquents home, he repeated at intervals 'What would Mr. Bounderby say? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.

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