OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 15628

derelict

/ˈdɛr.ə.lɪkt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
derelicto • negligente
Negligent in performing a duty; careless.
The wrongs which we have suffered from Mexico are before the world, and must deeply impress every American citizen. A Government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such…
📚 noun • entry_id 15629

derelict

/ˈdɛr.ə.lɪkt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
derrelicto
Property abandoned by its former guardian or owner; (countable) an item of such property.
Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May." / And I looked at it, and I thou…
paria
An abandoned or forsaken person; an outcast, a waif.
A rather pathetic figure, the Lady Frances, a beautiful woman, still in fresh middle age, and yet, by a strange chance, the last derelict of what only twenty years ago was a goodly…
And, think you, will the unkind ones hesitate / To try conclusions with my helplessness,— / To pounce on, misuse me, your derelict, / Helped by advantage that bereavement lends / F…
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