recreant
📖 Definitions
adjective
1. Unfaithful to a cause, duty, person, belief, etc.
2. Cowardly.
noun
1. A disloyal person.
2. A coward.
💬 Usage Examples
“Here are some of the lovely closing lines of ‘Fever’ -- about a father of two young children abandoned by his recreant wife -- as he waves goodbye to a nanny who can no longer help him.” William Giraldi; ‘This Life Is Not Easy’: The Redemption of Raymond Carver; Commonweal (New York); May 3, 2019.