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Definition of "derelictions" [derelictions]

  • Plural form of dereliction. (noun)

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Use "derelictions" in a sentence
  • "She might have remained blissfully unaware of Naipaul's personal derelictions, or dismissed them the irrelevancies they are, and retained her fondness for his earlier work."
  • "And since I am really no more interested in Steve Erickson's notions of what the future holds (or what it ought to hold, given our current derelictions) than I am in anyone else's -- which is to say not much interested at all -- I have to judge that the reading experience was ultimately not worth the effort expended."
  • "Appealing to the author's externally articulated "intention" can neither rescue a failed fiction from its flaws nor doom an otherwise rewarding work to the prison-house of the author's alleged ideological derelictions."