Crossword-Solution: DESERTER 8 letters, 108 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

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Deserter n. One who forsakes a duty, a cause or a party, a friend, or
any one to whom he owes service; especially, a soldier or a seaman who
abandons the service without leave; one guilty of desertion.

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We have 108 clues for the answer “DESERTER”

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AIRFORCE runaway 1 answer
ARMY runaway 1 answer
AWOL soldier 1 answer
Bowe Bergdahl, in 2009 1 answer
Candidate for court-martial. 1 answer
He goes AWOL 1 answer
Long-time AWOL. 1 answer
Military runaway 1 answer
Missing person, of a sort 1 answer
ONE who leaves his post 1 answer
One going awol 1 answer
One that's left 1 answer
One who abandons his mates 1 answer
One who abandons the cause 1 answer
One who leaves the army without leave 1 answer
PERSON WHO ABANDONS THEIr duty military post 1 answer
PERSON who decamps at night 1 answer
Person who's way off-base? 1 answer
Service quitter 1 answer
Soldier A.W.O.L. too long. 1 answer
Turncoat or coward 1 answer
Turncoat, e.g. 1 answer
a person who abandons their duty 1 answer
Rat – runaway – renegade 1 answer
Court-martial candidate 2 answers
Military no-show 2 answers
Turntail 2 answers
Yellow type? 2 answers
No-show 3 answers
flincher 4 answers
"Front!" runner 7 answers
Poltroon. 8 answers
absconder 10 answers
A PERSON WHO LEAVES A TIP 11 answers
CAUSE TO ASSEMBLE OR ENLIST IN THE MILITARY 11 answers
A PERSON WHO SELDOM GOES ANYWHERE 11 answers
One on the run 13 answers
Dastard 15 answers
Wuss 15 answers
DISLOYAL person 17 answers
ABSENTEE ___ 17 answers
ALARMIST 20 answers
dole bludger 22 answers
BLUDGER 23 answers
Sluggard 25 answers
Malingerer 26 answers
runagate 26 answers
tergiversator 26 answers
MAN without a country 26 answers
Back-stabber 27 answers
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An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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Sentences with DESERTER (5)

Oswald, on receiving this intelligence, resolved to return to his master for farther instructions, carrying along with him Gurth, whom he considered in some sort as a deserter from the service of Cedric.
Ivanhoe Walter Scott 1993
They'll play deserter, turn with the traitor breath, Break the high bond we made, and sell Love's trust And sacramented covenant to the dust.
The Collected Poems of Rupert Brooke Rupert Brooke 1995
This man, a deserter, was to be shot, so he said, with Bridge, a fact which gave him an additional twenty-four hours of life, since, he asserted, General Villa wished to be elsewhere than in Cuivaca when an American was executed.
The Mucker Edgar Rice Burroughs 1995
One thing puzzled her: in his incoherent mutterings, Darby constantly referred to a furlough and a deserter.
The Burial of the Guns Thomas Nelson Page 2008
And suddenly the thought came to me that I was a traitor to my friends, a deserter from the little army that loved me so well.
The Crossing Winston Churchill 1995

Quotes with DESERTER (3)

... I, as an anarch, renouncing any bond, any limitation of freedom, also reject compulsory education as nonsense. It was one of the greatest well-springs of misfortune in the world. Compulsory schooling is essentially a means of curtailing natural strength and exploiting people. The same is true of military conscription, which developed within the same context. The anarch rejects both of them - just like obligatory vaccination and insurance of all kinds. He has reservations …
Ernst Junger Eumeswil
Why should a man be scorned, if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if, when he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls? The world outside has not become less real because the prisoner cannot see it. In using Escape in this way the critics have chosen the wrong word, and, what is more, they are confusing, not always by sincere error, the Escape of the Prisoner with the Flight of the Deserter. just so a Par…
J. R. R. Tolkien Tolkien on Fairy-stories
A bad leader wouldn't stress the importance of staying together to stop the enemy. You want peace? You can't forgive the enemy, if you can't forgive your men for losing faith. You can't force every one single Union deserter to fight, but I know, only you can inspire every deserter to fight for their cause." - Amelia Raht
Monet Polny The Lincoln Spy
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.

Used 33 times in crossword archives (1950–2021).