Sentence example with the word 'recreant'

recreant

Sabbath-breaker, blackguardly, dastardly, fallen, knavish, pervert, rat, sacrilegist, tergiversant, turncoat

Definition adj. having deserted a cause or principle

Last update: July 10, 2015


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In the manifesto the three ministers asserted that " from the peculiarity of its geographical position, and the considerations attendant upon it, Cuba is as necessary to the North American republic as any of its present members "; spoke of the danger to the United States of an insurrection in Cuba; asserted that " we should be recreant to our duty, be unworthy ingly on his return from England in 1856 he was nominated by the Democrats as a compromise candidate for president, and was elected, receiving 174 electoral votes to 114 for John C. Fremont, Republican, and 8 for Millard Fillmore, American or " Know-Nothing."   [Please select]

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With swaying arms they wail in pneuma over the recreant Bloom.   [Please select]

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Yield now to me as a recreant knight or I will slay you as you stand.   [Please select]

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Nor would he come forth, for all that Sir Bors called him coward and recreant.   [Please select]

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'Thy vaunting of thy recreant kinsman's might will not avail thee,' he cried furiously.   [Please select]

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It may have been the recreant husband and father, unable longer to deny himself a look at his bairns,--who knows.   [Please select]

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Bully Tom was spiteful, and Master Arthur might come to "look up" his recreant pupil, and then Bill's father would know all.   [Please select]

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