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- noun Common misspelling of
derelict .
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Examples
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Even supposed leaders from other states like Haley Barber think this derilict behavior is acceptabel "under the right circumstances".
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Thanks MSM for being derilict in your responsibilities during the primary.
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Why should it require impeachment to get this derilict to resign.
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I had found a derilict building which is huge and impressive that I wanted to go and try something like this in but apparently it's too dangerous..
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Frankly I felt Bill Clinton's attempt to resolve the Israel/Palestinian conflict was heroic ... and compared to Bush's ABSENCE from resolving Foreign issues, or even trying ... was pathetically neligent and derilict of duty as far as I'm concerned.
Clinton Aides Comfortable With Bill's Vetting, Worried About Press 2008
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I mean you are a fan of the derilict Green Bay Packers when you could switch to THE WORLD CHAMPION NEW YORK GIANTS.
Brett. Ann Althouse 2008
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We are meant to be made sympathetic to people who would be completely derilict in their duties in order to avoid service.
McCain or Obama — who had the better experience his first time... Ann Althouse 2008
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Don Wiss (a photographer in Brooklyn who has posted galleries of the mailing addresses that are listed as the store locations of Brooklyn's fraud-stores) went and took some pictures of the storefront for PriceRitePhoto (another company that previously threatened to have a blogger who posted about his negative experiences with the company arrested), a graffiti-scrawled, semi-derilict building in Brooklyn with no evidence of any kind of legitimate retail operation.
Boing Boing: December 11, 2005 - December 17, 2005 Archives 2005
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I know lots of them for ya: beautiful nature , lots of ruins, etc. and the place where I live has a lot of old derilict farmbuildings and there's lots of old junk, dying and rusty agricultural machinery and other things lying about.
Sunny Acres and Dan's Crane SLO william wray 2007
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Why should genetic material be considered public domain and legally derilict of original ownership?
Dept. of Education SMART grants: Evolutionary biologists need not apply - The Panda's Thumb 2006
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