Synonyms for recreancy
- alienation
- apostasy
- backsliding
- deficiency
- dereliction
- desertion
- disaffection
- disloyalty
- disownment
- divorce
- estrangement
- failing
- failure
- faithlessness
- forsaking
- lack
- parting
- rebellion
- recreance
- rejection
- repudiation
- retreat
- revolt
- separation
- severance
- sundering
- tergiversation
- withdrawal
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Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.
Amidst the poignancy of her regrets, her shame for her recreancy was sharper still.
His opposition, and their own recreancy of principle, tended rapidly to their overthrow.
To hint to them that Davis would succeed was not only recreancy to freedom, but blasphemy against God.
If I am stopped at my first recreancy and turned directly the contrary way, I think I have courage.'
Jeanne had a girl's pride in wanting this woman to understand that she was in no wise hurt by Marsac's recreancy.
She was devoted to her son, and not at all disposed to take the General's views about his recreancy in politics.
MORE RELATED WORDS FOR RECREANCY
defection
nounabandonmentdesertion
nounabandonment- abrogation
- absconding
- apostasy
- avoidance
- backsliding
- betrayal
- castoff
- defecting
- departing
- departure
- derelict
- dereliction
- disaffection
- disavowal
- disavowing
- divorce
- elusion
- escape
- evasion
- falling away
- falseness
- flight
- forsaking
- going back on
- leaving
- marooning
- perfidy
- recreancy
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- retirement
- retreat
- running out on
- secession
- tergiversation
- treachery
- truancy
- withdrawal
fear
nounalarm, apprehension- abhorrence
- agitation
- angst
- anxiety
- aversion
- awe
- bête noire
- chickenheartedness
- cold feet
- cold sweat
- concern
- consternation
- cowardice
- creeps
- despair
- discomposure
- dismay
- disquietude
- distress
- doubt
- dread
- faintheartedness
- foreboding
- fright
- funk
- horror
- jitters
- misgiving
- nightmare
- panic
- phobia
- presentiment
- qualm
- recreancy
- reverence
- revulsion
- scare
- suspicion
- terror
- timidity
- trembling
- tremor
- trepidation
- unease
- uneasiness
- worry
fears
nounalarm, apprehension- abhorrence
- agitation
- angst
- anxiety
- aversion
- awe
- bête noire
- chickenheartedness
- cold feet
- cold sweat
- concern
- consternation
- cowardice
- creeps
- despair
- discomposure
- dismay
- disquietude
- distress
- doubt
- dread
- faintheartedness
- foreboding
- fright
- funk
- horror
- jitters
- misgiving
- nightmare
- panic
- phobia
- presentiment
- qualm
- recreancy
- reverence
- revulsion
- scare
- suspicion
- terror
- timidity
- trembling
- tremor
- trepidation
- unease
- uneasiness
- worry
perfidy
nountreachery- betrayal
- bunco
- corruption
- dirty dealing
- dirty pool
- dirty trick
- dirty work
- disaffection
- dodge
- double-cross
- double-dealing
- duplicity
- faithlessness
- fake
- falseness
- fast shuffle
- flimflam
- grift
- gyp
- infidelity
- perfidiousness
- put-on
- racket
- recreancy
- scam
- sellout
- shell game
- skin game
- spoof
- stab in the back
- sweet talk
- treacherousness
- treason
- two-timing
- whitewash
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.