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Synonyms and Antonyms of recreants
- traditionally armies have dealt harshly with recreants, with execution being a common punishment for desertion during wartime
betrayers, double-crossers, quislings, traitors, traitresses (or traitoresses), turnabouts, turncoats
abandoners, come-outers, dropouts, leavers
defiers, insurgents, insurrectionaries, insurrectionists, mutineers, rebels, reds, revolters, revolutionaries, revolutionists, revolutionizers
recusants, refuseniks (also refusniks), refusers
- the historian reserved his greatest contempt for those recreants who opposed the witch hunt but lacked the courage to speak out against it
cream puffs, milquetoasts, pushovers, pussies [slang], weaklings, wimps
- a spy and recreant to his country
accommodationists, collaborationists, collaborators, sellouts, subversives, subverters
coconspirators (or co-conspirators), conspirators, intriguers, plotters, schemers
defectors, deserters, renegades
blabbermouths, gossips, gossipers, gossipmongers, informants, informers, rats, rumormongers, snitches, snitchers, squealers, stool pigeons, talebearers, talkers, tattlers, tattletales, telltales
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