recreancy
61cowardice — n pusillanimity, timidity, timorousness, faint heartedness, weak heartedness, Inf. chicken heartedness; poltroonery, dastardliness, recreancy, cra venness, cowardliness; faint heart, weak knees, white feather, Inf. chicken heart, Inf. funk, Sl.… …
62defection — n 1.(used in reference to allegiances) forsaking, forswearing; rejection, rejecting, renunciation, renouncement, abjuration, repudiation. 2. treason, perfidy, betrayal; unfaithfulness, faithlessness, disloyalty, recreancy, recreance; apostasy,… …
63dereliction — n 1. negligence, negligency, neglect, delinquency, remissness, Obs. indiligence; laxity, slackness, looseness, Fr. laissez aller; slovenliness, sloppiness, shoddiness; carelessness, inaccuracy, inexactitude, inexactness. 2. disregard, omission,… …
64desertion — n 1. abandonment, forsaking, defection, betrayal; heresy, apostasy, recreance, recreancy; neglect, negligence, dereliction. 2. flight, escape, evasion, elusion; departure, decampment, evacuation. 3. relinquishment, abnegation, resignation,… …
65disloyalty — n unfaithfulness, faithlessness, infidelity, falseness, false heartedness; apostasy, traitorousness, Iscariotism, treason, perfidy, recreancy; deceit, double dealing, duplicity; disaffection, breach, estrangement …
66failing — n 1. failure, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment; miscarriage, abortion; no go, vain attempt; fizzle, fiasco, botch, blunder, washout, flash in the pan. 2. shortcoming, fault, imperfection, defect, weakness; frailty, foible, flaw, blemish, infirmity,… …
67failure — n 1. lack of success, nonsuccess, nonfulfillment, defeat, frustration, inefficacy; mishap, misfortune, mischance; miscarriage, abortion; blunder, error, slip, trip, stumble, faux pas; botch, muff, mess, muddle; fizzle, fiasco, Inf. washout; vain… …
68faithlessness — n 1. infidelity, unfaithfulness, disloyalty, inconstancy, recreancy, dereliction; breach of trust, dishonesty, fraudulence, double dealing, perfidy; betrayal, treachery, traitorousness, treason. 2. doubt, skepticism, incredulity, uncertainty,… …
69infidelity — n 1. breach of trust, faithlessness, bad faith, treachery, perfidy, perfidiousness; disloyalty, unfaithfulness, falseness, falseheartedness; apostasy, traitorousness, Iscariotism, treason, recreancy; deceit, double dealing, duplicity;… …
70ingloriousness — n 1. dishonor, disgrace, shame, degradation, debasement, vitiation, ill repute; ignominy, infamy, odium, opprobrium. 2. baseness, vileness, meanness, lowness, viciousness, badness; sordidness, ignobility, sinisterness, darkness; malice,… …
