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Quitter   /kwˈɪtər/   Listen
Quitter

noun
1.
A person who gives up too easily.






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"Quitter" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite those terms. I may have exaggerated my abilities slightly." Glass laughed. "She is such a great admirer of athletics, it was quite natural. Any man would have done the same. She got me committed in front of the cowboys, and I had to accept—or be a quitter." ...
— Going Some • Rex Beach

... Thirty Years' War. Simion Petrovitch was a chamberlain, and served in the ministerial court. His patriotism had prevented him from entering the diplomatic service, for which he was cut out by his personal appearance, education, knowledge of the world, and his success with women. Mais quitter la Russie? Jamais! Kollomietzev was rich and had a great many influential friends. He passed for a promising, reliable young man un peu feodal dans ses opinions, as Prince B. said of him, and Prince B. was one of the leading lights in St. Petersburg official circles. Kollomietzev ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev

... un delai de 48 heures pour l'acceptation des demandes y contenues. Giesl a ajoute verbalement que pour le cas ou la note ne serait pas acceptee integralement dans un delai de 48 heures, il avait l'ordre de quitter Belgrade avec le personnel de la Legation. Pachitch et les autres Ministres qui se trouvent en tournee electorale ont ete rappeles et sont attendus a Belgrade demain Vendredi a 10 heures du matin. Patchou qui m'a communique le contenu de la note, sollicite ...
— Why We Are At War (2nd Edition, revised) • Members of the Oxford Faculty of Modern History

... go with you, you'd rejoice for a little, perhaps. Then, some day, when you and I were lying on deck, you'd look at me and think of me—against your will—I don't say it wouldn't be against your will—you'd think of me as a quitter. And you wouldn't like me quite as well as you do ...
— The Twenty-Fourth of June • Grace S. Richmond



Words linked to "Quitter" :   quit, someone, recreant, person, individual, turncoat, deserter, apostate, ratter, soul, abdicator, dropout, mortal, renegade, somebody



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