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She was devoted to her son, and not at all disposed to take the General's views about his recreancy in politics.
MARY GRAYKATHARINE TYNANAmidst the poignancy of her regrets, her shame for her recreancy was sharper still.
ANNIE KILBURNWILLIAM DEAN HOWELLSIt would be sad recreancy to my most sacred duty were I, falling in love with a dream, to forsake a great reality.'
ZENOBIAWILLIAM WARETo hint to them that Davis would succeed was not only recreancy to freedom, but blasphemy against God.
THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, VOLUME 16, NO. 93, JULY, 1865VARIOUSJeanne had a girl's pride in wanting this woman to understand that she was in no wise hurt by Marsac's recreancy.
A LITTLE GIRL IN OLD DETROITAMANDA MINNIE DOUGLASIf I am stopped at my first recreancy and turned directly the contrary way, I think I have courage.'
DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS, COMPLETEGEORGE MEREDITHHis opposition, and their own recreancy of principle, tended rapidly to their overthrow.
THE FELON'S TRACKMICHAEL DOHENYNot to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.
NO COMPROMISE WITH SLAVERYWILLIAM LLOYD GARRISONWORDS RELATED TO RECREANCY
- 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
- perfidy
- recreancy
- rejection
- relinquishment
- renunciation
- repudiation
- resignation
- retirement
- retreat
- running out on
- secession
- tergiversation
- treachery
- truancy
- withdrawal
- 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
- abhorrence
- agitations
- angst
- anxieties
- aversions
- awe
- bête noires
- chickenheartednesses
- cold feets
- cold sweats
- concerns
- consternation
- cowardice
- creeps
- despair
- discomposure
- dismay
- disquietudes
- distress
- doubts
- dreads
- faintheartednesses
- forebodings
- frights
- funks
- horrors
- jitters
- misgivings
- nightmares
- panics
- phobias
- presentiments
- qualms
- recreancies
- reverences
- revulsion
- scares
- suspicions
- terrors
- timidities
- tremblings
- tremors
- trepidations
- unease
- uneasiness
- worries
- 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.