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deserter, apostate, renegade, turncoat, recreant, ratter

n. a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.

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apostate

adj. not faithful to religion or party or cause

absentee

n. one that is absent or not in residence

malingerer, skulker, shammer

n. someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity

dissenter, dissident, protester, objector, contestant

n. a person who dissents from some established policy

maverick, rebel

n. someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action

character, eccentric, type, case

n. a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities); "a real character"; "a strange character"; "a friendly eccentric"; "the capable type"; "a mental case"

mugwump, independent, fencesitter

n. a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics)

false

adj. designed to deceive; "a suitcase with a false bottom"

recreant, renegade

adj. having deserted a cause or principle; "some provinces had proved recreant"; "renegade supporters of the usurper"

adulterous, cheating(a), two-timing(a)

adj. not faithful to a spouse or lover; "adulterous husbands and wives"; "a two-timing boyfriend"

perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

punic, perfidious, treacherous

adj. tending to betray; especially having a treacherous character as attributed to the Carthaginians by the Romans; "Punic faith"; "the perfidious Judas"; "the fiercest and most treacherous of foes"; "treacherous intrigues"

orthodox

adj. adhering to what is commonly accepted; "an orthodox view of the world"

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