What is another word for deserter?

Pronunciation: [dɪzˈɜːtə] (IPA)

When it comes to synonyms for the word "deserter," there are several other words that can be used to convey a similar meaning. Some of the most common synonyms for deserter include absconder, renegade, runaway and traitor. An absconder is someone who has fled from their obligations or duties, while a renegade is someone who has broken away from their former allegiances or beliefs. A runaway is someone who has left a situation without permission, while a traitor is someone who betrays their country or cause. All of these words can be used to describe someone who has abandoned their responsibilities or commitments, often to the detriment of others.

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What are the opposite words for deserter?

The antonyms for the word "deserter" are loyalist, stalwart, faithful, obedient, committed, and patriot. While a deserter is someone who abandons their duty or obligation, a loyalist is a person who stays true to their beliefs or allegiance. A stalwart is someone who is dependable and reliable, while a faithful person remains devoted to their promises and commitments. Obedient individuals follow instructions and fulfill their responsibilities with diligence. A committed individual is dedicated to their cause or task, and a patriot remains devoted to their country and its principles. These antonyms should be used when describing individuals who prioritize their duties and remain steadfast in their beliefs, rather than abandoning them.

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Usage examples for Deserter

Yet one and one and one shall return to me for life; the deserter and the destroyer shall re-create me.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
"Impossible," he exclaimed, laughing-and it was the first time I had seen him, not only smile, but laugh heartily-"and so even you are affected by human weaknesses; but beware of me, for I will bring back the deserter, willing or unwilling; not to pass sentence on him, but to entrust to him again the standard under which I will conquer or die."
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
Will he sleep easier because you prove a deserter to the cause to which you swore allegiance?
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck

Famous quotes with Deserter

  • He who could have been a torch and stoops to being a pair of jaws is a deserter.
    Jose Marti
  • Those who have never fought suppose that the deserter who flies the field is consumed by shame. He is not, or he would not desert; with only trifling exceptions, battles are fought by cowards afraid to run.
    Gene Wolfe
  • A number of little birds, to the amount, I believe, of twelve or fourteen, being taken from different cages, were placed upon a table in the presence of the spectators; and there they formed themselves into ranks like a company of soldiers: small cones of paper bearing some resemblance to grenadiers caps were put upon their heads, and diminutive imitations of muskets made with wood, secured under their left wings. Thus equipped, they marched to and fro several times; when a single bird was brought forward, supposed to be a deserter, and set between six of the musketeers, three in a row, who conducted him from the top to the bottom of the table, on the middle of which a small brass cannon charged with a little gunpowder had been previously placed, and the deserter was situated in the front part of the cannon; his guards then divided, three retiring on one side, and three on the other, and he was left standing by himself. Another bird was immediately produced; and, a lighted match being put into one of his claws, he hopped boldly on the other to the tail of the cannon, and, applying the match to the priming, discharged the piece without the least appearance of fear or agitation. The moment the explosion took place, the deserter fell down, and lay, apparently motionless, like a dead bird; but, at the command of his tutor he rose again; and the cages being brought, the feathered soldiers were stripped of their ornaments, and returned into them in perfect order.
    Joseph Strutt
  • I am a libertine, but I am not a nor a , and since I am compelled to set my apology alongside my vindication, I shall therefore say that it might well be possible that those who condemn me as unjustly as I have been might themselves be unable to offset the infamies by good works as clearly established as those I can contrast to my errors. I am a libertine, but three families residing in your area have for five years lived off my charity, and I have saved them from the farthest depths of poverty. I am a libertine, but I have saved a deserter from death, a deserter abandoned by his entire regiment and by his colonel. I am a libertine, but at Evry, with your whole family looking on, I saved a child—at the risk of my life—who was on the verge of being crushed beneath the wheels of a runaway horse-drawn cart, by snatching the child from beneath it. I am a libertine, but I have never compromised my wife’s health. Nor have I been guilty of the other kinds of libertinage so often fatal to children’s fortunes: have I ruined them by gambling or by other expenses that might have deprived them of, or even by one day foreshortened, their inheritance? Have I managed my own fortune badly, as long as I have had a say in the matter? In a word, did I in my youth herald a heart capable of the atrocities of which I today stand accused?... How therefore do you presume that, from so innocent a childhood and youth, I have suddenly arrived at the ultimate of premeditated horror? No, you do not believe it. And yet you who today tyrannize me so cruelly, you do not believe it either: your vengeance has beguiled your mind, you have proceeded blindly to tyrannize, but your heart knows mine, it judges it more fairly, and it knows full well it is innocent.
    Marquis de Sade
  • Thou treacherous, base deserter of my flame, False to my passion, fatal to my fame, Through what mistaken magic dost thou prove So true to lewdness, so untrue to love?
    John Wilmot

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