Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- So as to fail in duty or obligation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb So as to fail in duty.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
delinquent manner.
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New Hybrid – $34,000, Sweet tunes – $16.00, Total language gap and yet a delinquently fun ride through the hood – Priceless!
Beat 360° 9/29/09 2009
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Several people have posted questions and I have been delinquently slow in answering.
The Answer Is: Whole Earth Organic No Caf fastfwd 2010
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Several people have posted questions and I have been delinquently slow in answering.
The Answer Is: Whole Earth Organic No Caf ahforgetit 2010
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Then they were delinquently bare around the sheet.
A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002
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Then they were delinquently bare around the sheet.
A Sweet Scent of Death Guillermo Arriaga 2002
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The imprecation to "let girls be girls" imagines a halcyon age of sexual innocence, where young ladies climbed trees and drank ginger pop instead of rummaging delinquently in each other's pornographic pencil cases.
The Guardian World News Laurie Penny 2010
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The imprecation to "let girls be girls" imagines a halcyon age of sexual innocence, where young ladies climbed trees and drank ginger pop instead of rummaging delinquently in each other's pornographic pencil cases.
The Guardian World News Laurie Penny 2010
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That he does this via the almost delinquently playful motif of spottedness, risking the seriousness of the story's emotion, but getting away with it, and thereby adding a level of pure joy to the performance, suggests that he is a natural-born short story writer.
Bibliobibuli 2009
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I don't know exactly what age is the cut-off for toting your glove to a baseball game, but this guy is clearly and delinquently past whatever age that is, by a good margin.
Cleveland Scene 2009
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