recreant

recreant

adjective afraid, apostate, apostatic, base, caitiff, conniving, corrupt, cowering, craven, dastardly, deceitful, derelict, disaffected, disgraceful, dishonest, dishonorable, disloyal, dissembling, double-dealing, fainthearted, false, falsehearted, fearful, frightened, guileful, inglorious, insidious, knavish, lilylivered, perfidious, pigeonhearted, poltroon, pusillanimous, renegade, scheming, sham, skulking, sneaking, spiritless, timid, timorous, traitorous, treacherous, treasonable, two-faced, uncourageous, undependable, unfaithful, unmanly, unreliable, unscrupulous, untrue, untrustworthy, villainous, without honor, yellow

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See also: caitiff, convict, criminal, degenerate, delinquent, disgraceful, disreputable, faithless, false, felon, iniquitous, lawless, peccable, reprehensible, reprobate, untrue

RECREANT. A Coward; a poltroon. 3 Bl. Com. 340.