All delinquency synonyms

noun delinquency

• default — If a person, company, or country defaults on something that they have legally agreed to do, such as paying some money or doing a piece of work before a particular time, they fail to do it.
• misbehavior — improper, inappropriate, or bad behavior.
• fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
• lapse — an accidental or temporary decline or deviation from an expected or accepted condition or state; a temporary falling or slipping from a previous standard: a lapse of justice.
• misdemeanor — Law. a criminal offense defined as less serious than a felony.
• crime — A crime is an illegal action or activity for which a person can be punished by law.
• nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• misdeed — an immoral or wicked deed.
• wrongdoing — behavior or action that is wrong, evil, or blameworthy.
• weakness — the state or quality of being weak; lack of strength, firmness, vigor, or the like; feebleness.
• offense — a violation or breaking of a social or moral rule; transgression; sin.
• oversight — an omission or error due to carelessness: My bank statement is full of oversights.
• neglect — to pay no attention or too little attention to; disregard or slight: The public neglected his genius for many years.
• nonobservance — absence or lack of observance.
• felony — an offense, as murder or burglary, of graver character than those called misdemeanors, especially those commonly punished in the U.S. by imprisonment for more than a year.
• lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.
• misconduct — improper conduct; wrong behavior.
• negligence — the quality, fact, or result of being negligent; neglect: negligence in discharging one's responsibilities.
• carelessness — not paying enough attention to what one does: a careless typist.
• recklessness — utterly unconcerned about the consequences of some action; without caution; careless (usually followed by of): to be reckless of danger.
• irresponsibility — said, done, or characterized by a lack of a sense of responsibility: His refusal to work shows him to be completely irresponsible.