(comparative more delinquent, superlative most delinquent) 1  Late or failing to pay a debt or other financial obligation, like a mortgage or loan. Fred is delinquent in making his car payment. 2  Failing in or neglectful of a duty or obligation; guilty of a misdeed or offense.
A microaggression is a slight against a person, intentionally or otherwise, that demeans a person's humanity and dignity. Microaggressions more often than not causes the recipient of the aggression to feel out of place or umwelcome.
Back in the 1970s, Harvard University professor Chester M. Pierce coined the term microaggression to describe the insults and slights he had witnessed against black people.He wrote : These [racial] assaults to black dignity and black hope are incessant and cumulative.Any single one may be gross.his is how psychologist Derald W. Sue, who's written two books on microaggressions, defines the term: The everyday slights, indignities, put downs and insults that people of color, women, LGBT populations or those who are marginalized experiences in their day-to-day interactions with people..