delinquent

  1. Adjective.  Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan.
  2. Adjective.  Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
  3. Noun.  One who disobeys or breaks rules or laws.
  4. Noun.  (obsolete) a term applied to royalists by their opponents in the English Civil War 1642 - 1645. Charles I was known as the chief delinquent.

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