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n. - Willful negligence; A tendency to be negligent and uncaring.

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  • The police officer has been charge when dereliction of duty.
  • That right there is what they call dereliction of duty where I come from, Pardner. hoho
  • If this dereliction is allowed to persist, it is predictable that more Americans will die, both on foreign battlefields and at home.
  • At no point did it cross my mind that by doing this I was in dereliction of duty.
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