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juvenile-delinquent

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  • adjective law Attributive form of juvenile delinquent

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  • Man, I am envisioning juvenile-delinquent movies as rival gangs in the PRK battle over who gets to agitate art in the streets.

    The Group of Death Peter Rozovsky 2010

  • Chris Massoglia plays Darren, a clean-cut honor student with a juvenile-delinquent pal named Steve (Josh Hutcherson) for a best friend.

    Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant deadly dull 2009

  • But his juvenile-delinquent act has gotten tiresome.

    Archive 2009-05-01 2009

  • Tashlin turns in some weaker-than-usual gags and and borrows very heavily from other movies like his own Susan Slept Here (Tuesday Weld's juvenile-delinquent act is all borrowed from Debbie Reynolds in the earlier movie) and Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (there's an extended gag about a dog burying a dinosaur bone).

    Archive 2007-10-01 Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • Tashlin turns in some weaker-than-usual gags and and borrows very heavily from other movies like his own Susan Slept Here (Tuesday Weld's juvenile-delinquent act is all borrowed from Debbie Reynolds in the earlier movie) and Hawks' Bringing Up Baby (there's an extended gag about a dog burying a dinosaur bone).

    BACHELOR FLAT (1962), John Williams, and So On Jaime J. Weinman 2007

  • At 55, the juvenile-delinquent looks have given way to Marlboro Man cragginess (even if Natural American Spirit is the brand he smokes).

    John Mellencamp: One from the Heartland DiGiacomo, Frank 2007

  • At 55, the juvenile-delinquent looks have given way to Marlboro Man cragginess (even if Natural American Spirit is the brand he smokes).

    John Mellencamp: One from the Heartland DiGiacomo, Frank 2007

  • Ed chewed his lip and ran a hand through his dark hair which was still strangely sexy—in that rebellious, juvenile-delinquent kind of way.

    LIAR FRANCINE PASCAL 2000

  • Ed chewed his lip and ran a hand through his dark hair which was still strangely sexy—in that rebellious, juvenile-delinquent kind of way.

    LIAR FRANCINE PASCAL 2000

  • Lincoln Center, 165 West 65th Street , (212) 975-5600, 'Kitten With a Whip' (Friday) The director John Waters will introduce Friday's 7:30 p.m. screening of this unintentionally campy juvenile-delinquent drama, which improbably casts the all-American Ann-Margret (fresh from "Bye Bye Birdie") as a troubled teenager who invades the life of happily married businessman (John Forsythe) with political ambitions.

    NYT > Home Page 2011

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