recreancy
Example Sentences
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I was certain that New Orleans, louche and corrupted in my view, would condone my recreancy.
From The Guardian ● Aug. 23, 2015
They could take him and trample on him, and flaunt his recreancy before Wilkinson even; he didn't want to kiss any more, even the fresh young lips of the children.
From Two Knapsacks A Novel of Canadian Summer Life by John Campbell
She was devoted to her son, and not at all disposed to take the General's views about his recreancy in politics.
From Mary Gray by Katharine Tynan
Not to cherish these feelings would be recreancy to principle.
From No Compromise with Slavery An Address Delivered to the Broadway Tabernacle, New York by William Lloyd Garrison
In his anxiety to so play the impassioned lover as to conceal the recreancy he had fostered in his own heart, Harry did not notice the coolness of this greeting.
From The Red Acorn by John McElroy
