Synonyms of refusenik

refusenik

noun

variants also refusnik

as in refuser

Related Words

• refuser
• recusant
• discontent
• rebel
• defier
• mutineer
• insurgent
• revolutionary
• insurrectionist
• revolutionist
• red
• insurrectionary
• quisling
• malcontent
• revolter
• traitor
• turncoat
• dropout
• renegade
• leaver
• defector
• abandoner
• revolutionizer
• deserter
• turnabout
• betrayer
• traitress
• come-outer
• apostate
• double-crosser
• recreant

Dissimilar Words

• supporter
• disciple
• adherent
• follower
• loyalist
• partisan
• militant
• fanatic
• zealot

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of refusenik

Instead, Elam became a refusenik, as conscientious objectors are called in Israel, over his disapproval of the Israel-Hamas war. — Jade Walker, CNN, 25 Mar. 2025

After getting a secret greenlight in March 1990, Mr. Reichmann was aboard his private plane to Lithuania to pick up refusenik Raiz and his son. — Brian Murphy, Washington Post, 10 Jan. 2023

Can the host forbid entry or try to make a refusenik toe the line? — Matt Zoller Seitz, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2021

Vaccine mandates by large companies and government agencies, many of them imposed at President Biden’s behest, seem to be working—without vaccine-refusenik workers quitting en masse, as threatened. — Susan B. Glasser, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2021

If the refusal to sign the Taxpayer Protection Pledge was sure to earn the Republican refusenik a potent primary challenge from the right, a denying Trump’s election lies as a gospel truth will likely lead to the same punishment. — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 7 July 2021

Natan Sharansky has been a computer scientist, a chess player, a refusenik, a dissident, a political prisoner, a party leader, a government minister, a nonprofit executive, and a bestselling author. — Matthew Continetti, National Review, 28 Nov. 2020