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recreant

English

  1. 🔊 having deserted a cause or principle
    “some provinces had proved recreant”
  2. 🔊 lacking even the rudiments of courage
    “the craven fellow turned and ran”
  3. 🔊 an abject coward
  4. 🔊 a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

Similar words

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