Recreant
['rekrɪənt] or ['rɛkrɪənt]
解释:
(adj.) having deserted a cause or principle; 'some provinces had proved recreant'; 'renegade supporters of the usurper' .
手打:利--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Crying for mercy, as a combatant in the trial by battle; yielding; cowardly; mean-spirited; craven.
(a.) Apostate; false; unfaithful.
(n.) One who yields in combat, and begs for mercy; a mean-spirited, cowardly wretch.
杰瑞德校对
同义词及近义词:
a. [1]. Cowardly, dastardly, craven, pusillanimous, mean-spirited, faint-hearted.[2]. Apostate, treacherous, false, faithless, untrue, backsliding.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Apostate, traitorous, dastardly, craven, false, cowardly, unfaithful, renegade,base, recusant
ANT:Staunch, true, faithful, chivalrous, knightly, gallant, loyal, redoubtable
手打:撒迪厄斯
解释:
adj. cowardly: false: apostate: renegade.—n. a mean-spirited wretch: an apostate: a renegade.—n. Rec′rēancy the quality of a recreant: a yielding mean cowardly spirit.—adv. Rec′rēantly.
编辑:塔比瑟
例句:
- And how shows this recreant conduct in a man on whom unequal laws are known to have fallen heavy? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- I had vowed to my own heart never to shadow her countenance even with transient grief, and should I prove recreant at the hour of greatest need? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Dieu sait que je les déteste comme la peste, ordinairement (this between his recreant teeth). 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
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