Thesaurus / desertion
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other words for desertion
- betrayal
- abrogation
- apostasy
- avoidance
- backsliding
- departure
- derelict
- dereliction
- disaffection
- disavowal
- divorce
- elusion
- escape
- evasion
- falseness
- flight
- forsaking
- leaving
- perfidy
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- retirement
- retreat
- secession
- tergiversation
- treachery
- truancy
- withdrawal
- absconding
- castoff
- defecting
- departing
- disavowing
- falling away
- going back on
- recreancy
- running out on
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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The dangerous prospects combined with low pay meant that finding crews for the ships was difficult and desertions ahead of launch day were high.
THE HARD-DRINKING PLAYBOYS WHO MADE TRANSATLANTIC SAILING HISTORYALLISON MCNEARNEYJUNE 6, 2021THE DAILY BEASTTo cease living together for the time fixed by statute is not desertion unless this was done intentionally.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESDesertion is a general ground of divorce, the law in every state prescribing a period of time, quite often three years.
PUTNAM'S HANDY LAW BOOK FOR THE LAYMANALBERT SIDNEY BOLLESBut the Emperor could not forgive his desertion, and, thinking he would not benefit by his services, he refused them.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONHave you any plea to urge beyond the natural one of her seemingly unprovoked desertion of you?
THE MAYOR'S WIFEANNA KATHERINE GREENThe sense of the desertion by humankind, by God and mercy and rationality swept through me and overwhelmed my inner self.
VALLEY OF THE CROENLEE TARBELLMy capture had revealed our desertion of the cabin, and the Indians had lost no time in entering and firing it.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERWas not this a blasphemy against the fatherly goodness of the Creator,—a base desertion of the cause of the disinherited?
THE SEVEN CARDINAL SINS: ENVY AND INDOLENCEEUGNE SUEDesertion doesn't mean a sea of water between, it means an ocean of self-will and love-me-first between.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERJust think: after five years of desertion, and trouble without end, and it all put right by a little sleight-of-hand.
YOU NEVER KNOW YOUR LUCK, COMPLETEGILBERT PARKERSYNONYM OF THE DAY
JUNE 16, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO DESERTION
- abandonment
- adieu
- bow out
- congé
- decampment
- desertion
- egress
- egression
- embarkation
- emigration
- escape
- evacuation
- exit
- exodus
- expatriation
- farewell
- flight
- getaway
- going
- going away
- goodbye
- hegira
- migration
- parting
- passage
- powder
- quitting
- recession
- removal
- retirement
- retreat
- sailing
- separation
- setting forth
- setting out
- stampede
- start
- takeoff
- taking leave
- taking off
- vacation
- vanishing act
- walkout
- withdrawal
- withdrawing
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.