recreant
Example Sentences
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Will the world or any portion of it be so recreant as to misunderstand this contemptuous challenge?''
From Time Magazine Archive
To a senior with average score the word benighted means weary, recreant means diverting and spurious means foamy.
From Time Magazine Archive
Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara Falls.
From Time Magazine Archive
Richberg was not only recreant to his obligations as a public servant, but a traitor to organized labor when he made that recommendation.
From Time Magazine Archive
When little Vladimir finally relinquished her, with assurances that he was ‘desolated to leave so early’, she was ready to rest, and see how her recreant knight had borne his punishment.
From "Little Women" by Louisa May Alcott
Vocabulary lists containing recreant
Believe It or Not: Cred
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
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Tolkien Reading Day, List 8
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