All backslider synonyms

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• criminal — A criminal is a person who regularly commits crimes.
• lawbreaker — a person who breaks or violates the law.
• awol — If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for 'absent without leave'.
• absconder — to depart in a sudden and secret manner, especially to avoid capture and legal prosecution: The cashier absconded with the money.
• betrayer — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
• delinquent — Someone, usually a young person, who is delinquent repeatedly commits minor crimes.
• derelict — A place or building that is derelict is empty and in a bad state of repair because it has not been used or lived in for a long time.
• maroon — dark brownish-red.
• no-show — a person who makes a reservation and neither uses nor cancels it.
• refugee — a person who flees for refuge or safety, especially to a foreign country, as in time of political upheaval, war, etc.
• runaway — a person who runs away; fugitive; deserter.
• shirker — a person who evades work, duty, responsibility, etc.
• slacker — a slack condition or part.
• truant — a student who stays away from school without permission.
• unescaped — to slip or get away, as from confinement or restraint; gain or regain liberty: to escape from jail. Synonyms: flee, abscond, decamp.
• bigot — If you describe someone as a bigot, you mean that they are bigoted.
• charlatan — You describe someone as a charlatan when they pretend to have skills or knowledge that they do not really possess.
• crook — A crook is a dishonest person or a criminal.
• impostor — a person who practices deception under an assumed character, identity, or name.
• phony — not real or genuine; fake; counterfeit: a phony diamond.
• trickster — a deceiver; cheat; fraud.
• actor — An actor is someone whose job is acting in plays or films. 'Actor' in the singular usually refers to a man, but some women who act prefer to be called 'actors' rather than 'actresses'.
• bluffer — good-naturedly direct, blunt, or frank; heartily outspoken: a big, bluff, generous man.
• casuist — a person, esp a theologian, who attempts to resolve moral dilemmas by the application of general rules and the careful distinction of special cases
• cheat — When someone cheats, they do not obey a set of rules which they should be obeying, for example in a game or exam.
• deceiver — to mislead by a false appearance or statement; delude: They deceived the enemy by disguising the destroyer as a freighter.
• decoy — If you refer to something or someone as a decoy, you mean that they are intended to attract people's attention and deceive them, for example by leading them into a trap or away from a particular place.
• dissembler — to give a false or misleading appearance to; conceal the truth or real nature of: to dissemble one's incompetence in business.
• dissimulate — to disguise or conceal under a false appearance; dissemble: to dissimulate one's true feelings about a rival.
• fake — to lay (a rope) in a coil or series of long loops so as to allow to run freely without fouling or kinking (often followed by down).
• faker — anything made to appear otherwise than it actually is; counterfeit: This diamond necklace is a fake.
• four-flusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
• fraud — deceit, trickery, sharp practice, or breach of confidence, perpetrated for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage.
• hook — a curved or angular piece of metal or other hard substance for catching, pulling, holding, or suspending something.
• humbug — something intended to delude or deceive.
• informer — a person who informs against another, especially for money or other reward.
• malingerer — to pretend illness, especially in order to shirk one's duty, avoid work, etc.
• masquerader — a party, dance, or other festive gathering of persons wearing masks and other disguises, and often elegant, historical, or fantastic costumes.
• pharisee — a member of a Jewish sect that flourished during the 1st century b.c. and 1st century a.d. and that differed from the Sadducees chiefly in its strict observance of religious ceremonies and practices, adherence to oral laws and traditions, and belief in an afterlife and the coming of a Messiah.
• play-act — to engage in make-believe.
• poser — wannabe, pretentious person
• pretender — a person who pretends, especially for a dishonest purpose.
• quack — a fraudulent or ignorant pretender to medical skill.
• smoothie — a person who has a winningly polished manner: He's such a smoothie he could charm the stripes off a tiger.
• sophist — (often initial capital letter) Greek History. any of a class of professional teachers in ancient Greece who gave instruction in various fields, as in general culture, rhetoric, politics, or disputation. a person belonging to this class at a later period who, while professing to teach skill in reasoning, concerned himself with ingenuity and specious effectiveness rather than soundness of argument.
• swindler — to cheat (a person, business, etc.) out of money or other assets.
• two-timer — to be unfaithful to (a lover or spouse).
• attitudinizer — One who attitudinizes, or practises poses.
• con artist — A con artist is someone who tricks other people into giving them their money or property.
• wolf in sheep's clothing — any of several large carnivorous mammals of the genus Canis, of the dog family Canidae, especially C. lupus, usually hunting in packs, formerly common throughout the Northern Hemisphere but now chiefly restricted to the more unpopulated parts of its range.