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Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Wanting courage; basely or weakly timid or fearful; pusillanimous; spiritless.

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Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a su…

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Not loyal; not true to a sovereign or lawful superior, or to the government under which one lives; false where allegiance is due; faithless; as, a su…

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Full of fear, apprehension, or alarm; afraid; frightened.

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Borne in the escutcheon with his tail doubled between his legs; -- said of a lion.

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One who quits.

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One faithless to principle or party.

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One faithless to principle or party.

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One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.

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One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.

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One who has forsaken the faith, principles, or party, to which he before adhered; esp., one who has forsaken his religion for another; a pervert; a r…

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Cowardly; fainthearted; spiritless.

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One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who abandons the service…

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An arrant coward; a dastard; a craven; a mean-spirited wretch.

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One who, or that which, rats, as one who deserts his party.

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One faithless to principle or party.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.