recreant
- n an abject coward
- n a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
- s having deserted a cause or principle
some provinces had proved recreant - s lacking even the rudiments of courage; abjectly fearful
this recreant knight"- Spenser
- Under your recreant Government it has lost its value.
- I can say, and with due humility, that I would be recreant to all my concepts of good citizenship were I to shrink because of the hazards and responsibilities involved from .
- Poet Vachel Lindsay, who has hymned many cities, played up the prosy aspect of "this Buffalo, this recreant town," to get a contrast for the "deathless glory" of nearby Niagara .