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  • 51apostate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. backslider, renegade, turncoat, deserter, traitor, recreant; double dealer, opportunist. See changeableness, impiety,heterodoxy, evildoer, dissent. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. renegade, one of little… …

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  • 52cowardice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shrinking from pain or danger Nouns 1. cowardice, cowardliness, pusillanimity, poltroonery, baseness; dastardliness; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear, white feather, faint heart, timidity. Informal …

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  • 53traitor — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. betrayer, turncoat, renegade, deserter, conspirator; in former, Judas, fifth columnist, quisling. See evildoer. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. betrayer, traducer, deserter, renegade, Judas, quisling,… …

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  • 54turncoat — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. renegade, deserter, traitor; apostate, recreant. See evildoer. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. traitor, renegade, betrayer, apostate, defector; see also deserter , traitor . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n.… …

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  • 55deserter — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. runaway, fugitive, refugee, escapee, truant, defector, derelict, delinquent, apostate, lawbreaker, betrayer, traitor, renegade, turncoat, backslider, recreant, slacker, shirker, rat; see also traitor . II (Roget s 3… …

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  • 56Cowardice — (Roget s Thesaurus) >Excess of fear. < N PARAG:Cowardice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 cowardice cowardice pusillanimity Sgm: N 1 cowardliness cowardliness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 timidity timidity effeminacy GRP: N 2 Sgm: N 2 …

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  • 57Improbity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Improbity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 improbity improbity Sgm: N 1 dishonesty dishonesty dishonor Sgm: N 1 deviation from rectitude deviation from rectitude Sgm: N 1 disgrace disgrace &c.(disrepute) 874 Sgm: N 1 fraud …

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  • 58dastard — I. n. Coward, poltroon, craven, recreant, milksop. II. a. Cowardly, pusillanimous, craven, recreant, coward, cowering, base, dastardly …

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  • 59renegade — renegade, apostate, turncoat, recreant, backslider are strongly derogatory terms denoting a person who forsakes his faith or party, a cause, or an allegiance, and aligns himself with another. Renegade, originally applied to a Christian who became …

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  • 60apostate — n 1.(all used in reference to faith or principles) deserter, renegade, recreant, defector, traitor; bolter, turncoat, retractor, recanter; tergiver sator, straddler; renouncer, abjurer, repudiator, rejecter; dissenter, seceder; backslider,… …

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