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  • 41irreligion — Synonyms and related words: apostasy, atheism, backsliding, desertion, fall from grace, godlessness, impiety, impiousness, irreverence, lapse, lapse from grace, recidivism, recreancy, sinfulness, un Christliness, unangelicalness,… …

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  • 42irreverence — Synonyms and related words: apostasy, atheism, backsliding, desertion, discourtesy, disesteem, dishonor, disparagement, disrespect, disrespectfulness, fall from grace, impiety, impiousness, impudence, insolence, irreligion, lack of respect, lapse …

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  • 43lapse — Synonyms and related words: abeyance, about face, advance, alchemy, apostasy, apostatize, assimilation, assumption, atavism, atheism, atrocity, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward deviation, backward motion, backward step, balk, be …

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  • 44recidivism — Synonyms and related words: about face, amorality, apostasy, atheism, backing, backset, backslide, backsliding, backward motion, backward step, betrayal, bolt, breakaway, carnality, criminality, defection, delinquency, desertion, disenchantment,… …

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  • 45secession — Synonyms and related words: agreement to disagree, alienation, apostasy, backsliding, betrayal, bolt, break, breakaway, breaking, counter culture, defection, dereliction, deserter, desertion, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation,… …

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  • 46tergiversation — Synonyms and related words: about face, amphibology, apostasy, denial, desertion, disavowal, double entendre, double meaning, equivocality, equivocation, equivoque, falseness, forswearing, recreancy, renunciation, repudiation, reversal, reverse …

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  • 47treason — Synonyms and related words: Golconda, Machiavellianism, apostasy, backsliding, betrayal, bolt, breach of trust, breakaway, collaboration, crossing over, deceit, deceitfulness, defection, degeneration, desertion, disloyalty, duplicity, eldorado,… …

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  • 48unfaithfulness — Synonyms and related words: Punic faith, adulterous affair, adultery, affair, amour, bad faith, barratry, breach of faith, breach of promise, breach of trust, cuckoldry, dereliction, disaffection, disloyalty, entanglement, eternal triangle,… …

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  • 49cowardice — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shrinking from pain or danger Nouns 1. cowardice, cowardliness, pusillanimity, poltroonery, baseness; dastardliness; abject fear, funk; Dutch courage; fear, white feather, faint heart, timidity. Informal …

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  • 50defection — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Failure] Syn. failing, lack, deficiency; see failure 1 , lack 1 , 2 . 2. [Desertion] Syn. withdrawal, abandonment, apostasy, going over to the other side; see desertion , disloyalty . II (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun An… …

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