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"a derelict" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a person or thing that has been deserted and neglected. For example, "The old factory building had become a derelict; no one had been inside for years."
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It's like a derelict house.
It's a derelict site".
"It was a derelict building," he said.
It looks like a derelict boarding school.
"It was a derelict place".
"And the truth in the facts is a derelict ruin".
"I heard music coming from a derelict house," she said.
Most of them end with him towing a derelict home.
He wears a derelict waistcoat, torn shirt, ashen shoes.
A derelict kite flapped frantically in a tree.
It's a derelict building so there was no central heating.
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