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noun

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Recent Examples of derelict
Adjective
The Abbey in the Oakwood is similarly enigmatic, featuring a derelict cemetery with tilting tombstones and the ruins of a church amid leafless trees, as is Greifswald in Moonlight, a nighttime scene of fishing vessels at low tide with a German city in the haze. Jerry Saltz, Vulture, 7 Feb. 2025 The club left behind a wealth of memories along with a site that then lay derelict for two years, with travellers setting up home in the car park. Richard Sutcliffe, The Athletic, 12 Aug. 2024 The association has raised concerns about pollution from boats that illegally dump their waste into the bay, about the damage their anchors cause to seagrass and about the cost of dealing with derelict vessels abandoned by their owners. Greg Allen, NPR, 3 Sep. 2024 The power station, which is famous for gracing the cover of the Pink Floyd album Animals, was decommissioned in 1983 and lay derelict for almost 30 years. Jamie Hailstone, Forbes, 18 Dec. 2024 See All Example Sentences for derelict
Recent Examples of Synonyms for derelict
Adjective
  • The Kentucky Humane Society is actively caring for 35 horses at Willow Hope Farm after rescuing 10 in emaciated and neglectful conditions in Franklin County Wednesday morning.
    Marina Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 20 Dec. 2024
  • Two pit bulls were rescued from their allegedly neglectful owner and her uninhabitable home on Wednesday, Feb. 19, according to a Sunday, Feb. 23 Suffolk County SPCA news release.
    Charna Flam, People.com, 25 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • One of the most powerful scenes in Sugarcane takes place in a disused barn where, over a period of decades, Indigenous children worked under the lash.
    Matthew Carey, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2025
  • McQueen spends half an hour dispassionately showing us the grimness of HMP Maze, a Troubles-era warehouse for enemies of the British state on a disused airfield.
    IndieWire Staff, IndieWire, 12 Aug. 2024
Noun
  • This was all done with a bum wrist, which posed as an inconvenience to him at times.
    Hannah Kirby, Journal Sentinel, 4 Aug. 2024
  • Tommy, left to prosecute the case against Rusty, has inherited a bum gig.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 26 July 2024
Adjective
  • The team held a multiple-point lead with seconds to go, but careless defense and turnovers cost them.
    Ron Estes, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025
  • Top-four defencemen Darnell Nurse and Jake Walman were also careless with the puck at times.
    Daniel Nugent-Bowman, New York Times, 27 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • The beggars, widows, and families with sick relatives who once made a pilgrimage to the gates of the parliament building in the Green Zone to beg lawmakers for help are now barred from entry.
    Ned Parker, Foreign Affairs, 12 Feb. 2012
  • All the beggars at the intersection of Lee Road and the off-ramp of I-4 are completely out of hand.
    Ticked Off, Orlando Sentinel, 18 July 2024
Adjective
  • On Facebook, the city government shared images of cracks in the walls of the lazy river, rust in the mechanical room and chipping concrete on a pedestrian bridge.
    Eleanor Nash, Kansas City Star, 23 Mar. 2025
  • In contrast to Joe Biden, Trump is not a traditional Atlanticist, views many of Washington's security arrangements in Europe as either antiquated or unfair, and tends to scoff at the European theater writ-large as lazy teenagers who take their parent's support for granted.
    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • The team had a group task to accomplish, yes, but at every checkpoint, people had to make the decision to be selfish or selfless, and the selfish ones got rewarded while the selfless were left abandoned and miserable on the loch.
    Joe Reid, Vulture, 7 Mar. 2025
  • But the findings won’t be able to say how abandoned land should be managed, or whether people should try to manage it at all.
    ByDan Charles, science.org, 2 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Extra hooks allow the bag to transform into a trapezoidal hobo shape.
    Joelle Diderich, WWD, 19 Sep. 2024
  • There’s a lot to love about Coach’s viral shoulder bag: the modern hobo style, the soft leather, the distinct shape.
    Lindy Segal, Glamour, 13 Sep. 2024

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“Derelict.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/derelict. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.

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