The affections which these exposed or derelict children bear to their mothers, have no grounds of nature or assiduity but civility and opinion.

2011, “When and where did NASA's derelict satellite go down?”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):

A government which is either unable or unwilling to redress such wrongs is derelict to its highest duties.

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 thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum;
Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."

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 fleet.

As they hunt, the Archers and Duval find many derelicts and ne'er-do-wells in many parts of Paris.

If they're lazy derelicts and ne'er-do-wells she'll eat 'em up. But she's waiting for real men — British to the bone

We see the distinction at work when victims of natural disasters and terrorist attacks are treated more generously than derelicts and drug addicts.

Derelict

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