dereliction of duty

An intentional and egregious failure to perform one's required duty or uphold one's responsibility. The coach was fired for a dereliction of duty when he failed to report the incident.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Yosef	-	Hebrew, Biblical Hebrew
Chalchiuhticue	-	Aztec and Toltec Mythology
Varvara	vahr-VAH-rah (Russian)	Russian, Greek, Bulgarian, Macedonian
Lexia	LEKS-ee-ə, LEKS-yə	English
Tenskwatawa	-	Native American, Shawnee
Rosamond	['rɔzəmənd]