(n.) An apostate from Christianity or from any form of religious faith.
(n.) One who deserts from a military or naval post; a deserter.
(n.) A common vagabond; a worthless or wicked fellow.
Example Sentences:
(1) But Abul Fotouh, an independent Islamist and Brotherhood renegade, also appeals to many liberals and supporters of the revolution, as well as some Salafists.
(2) Where people were terrorised into leaving, Karadžić claimed it was the work of “criminals or renegades, and people carrying out retaliation whose own homes were burned”.
(3) His buddies – the far-right, climate-denying , UN-hating renegades who formed his campaign brains trust – are egging him on to simply break it, to smash it on the floor for a good laugh.
(4) He discussed his early influences and rock’n’roll renegades, telling us what’s so great about the bands that he’s booked for his takeover of the ATP festival at Prestatyn in April.
(5) He can truly be held hostage by a handful of renegade conservatives in his caucus.
(6) At dawn, the muezzin's call to prayer was drowned out by the sound of mortar fire as troops loyal to Saleh fought with a division of renegade soldiers for control over strategic parts of the capital.
(7) With renegade former Liberal MP Geoff Shaw now an independent, the major parties are locked at 43 MPs each, plus the Speaker.
(8) She’s such a renegade.’ “I couldn’t get the party people onboard until after the primary.
(9) Even as the Nairobi talks were under way, a key regional capital in South Sudan reportedly changed hands once again as a renegade tribal warlord attacked the town of Malakal and declared his allegiance to Machar’s rebels.
(10) There aren’t enough Trotskyists, entryists, devious Tories and random renegades to explain such an overwhelming victory.
(11) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Many suspect he seeks national power.
(12) Russell's career stuttered following the release of the cult 1980 drama Altered States, which starred William Hurt as a renegade scientist although he continued to direct, in film and on TV, throughout the 1980s and 90s.
(13) We’ll certainly be talking to him and the Renegades about it.
(14) A third Islamist, Abdel Moneim Aboul Futouh, a renegade former Brotherhood member, is also running.
(15) Sana'a is now gripped by street battles and exchanges of shelling between Republican Guards led by Saleh's son and a division of renegade soldiers who have been backing the pro-democracy demonstrators.
(16) What western leaders celebrating their victory do not and cannot say is how many civilians died in the war – some estimates rise into the tens of thousands; what are the chances of establishing a genuinely democratic, inclusive government in Tripoli; whether rival political and tribal factions and Islamists may yet turn on each other; how, in such a scenario, Britain and other EU countries can prevent mass emigration from and through Libya into southern Europe; when, if ever, the renegade Gaddafi and his cronies will face the international criminal court; and most problematic of all, how the US, Britain and France square their robust intervention in Libya with their hands-off policy towards Syria, a strategically more important country where the lethal repression of civilians exceeds anything attempted by Gaddafi this year.
(17) Nevertheless, the future success of more reliable renegades like Senator Warren depends on their being able to capitalise on simmering party divisions like this – arguably in much the same way that the Tea Party has leveraged power among Republicans so successfully in recent years.
(18) Khalifa Haftar: renegade general causing upheaval in Libya Read more Crispin Blunt, the chair of the foreign affairs select committee, is one of the British voices urging the US not to be lured by the myth of a strong man.
(19) But Llew Smith was careful not to get expelled from Labour as 20 party veterans were (it's in the rules) for openly endorsing the renegade Law.
(20) Group-IB, which runs one of Russia's two official internet watchdogs, said the number of malicious .su websites doubled in 2011 and again in 2012, surpassing the vast number of renegade sites on .ru and its newer Cyrillic-language counterpart.
Traitor
Definition:
(n.) One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
(n.) Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer.
(a.) Traitorous.
(v. t.) To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
Example Sentences:
(1) Worst of all, it invites politicians to identify their opponents as traitors to the nation.
(2) It’s all they are interested in – identifying traitors.
(3) Was Boris Nemtsov killed because in Russia opposition activists are deemed traitors?
(4) The independent review was set up by Steve Williams, the new Police Federation chairman, who has been called a traitor and a dictator, and faced a no-confidence motion for trying to drive through a programme of reform of the organisation after he took up the role earlier this year.
(5) Evra had earlier railed against the "traitor" in the squad's midst, "who told the press what was said" at half-time against Mexico.
(6) We ought not treat a traitor like a martyr.” Responding to Cotton, a White House official said it was worth considering that the Republican supported the presidency of “someone who publicly praised WikiLeaks” and who “encouraged a foreign government to hack his opponent”, in reference to Trump.
(7) Photograph: Adharanand Finn On another wall by a playground, Jeff points out the faces of Bradley Manning and Edward Snowden, and painted between them the question: “Hero or traitor?” The relative freedom Bogotá’s street artists have become accustomed too, however, may be about to change.
(8) Another former colleague in the psychological operations unit, Fred Allen Lucas, said that Page called him a "race traitor" for dating Latina women and took to calling other races "dirt people".
(9) The terrorists are traitors to their own faith, trying, in effect, to hijack Islam itself.
(10) But as the night echoed with chants denouncing Taliban apologists as traitors,some in the crowd quietly admitted their doubts.
(11) It is hard to imagine a less traitorous motive for whistleblowing, or a more powerful public interest in what was revealed.
(12) Mohammad Javad Zarif, his foreign minister, was labelled a traitor and threatened with being buried in the concrete to be used to decommission the Arak nuclear reactor .
(13) On Sunday, appearing on the CBS talk show Face the Nation, former air force general and NSA and CIA chief Michael Hayden called Snowden a traitor and accused him of treason.
(14) But Adam Holloway asked leftie David Winnick if he'd think Snowden a traitor if a British city was nuked by terrorists (duh?).
(15) Sessions denied what he called “very painful” claims at the time that he condemned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) as “un-American” and described a white civil rights attorney as a race traitor.
(16) When Murphy resumed his 100-town tour off Edinburgh’s Princes Street on Tuesday he was energetic and courteous, praising both sides for their patriotism: “No one in this debate is a traitor, no one is a quisling.” The remark was directed at angry, even threatening hecklers ( he posted the evidence on YouTube ) who had called Murphy both and forced him to suspend the tour temporarily.
(17) We didn’t want to make this journey but in Baghdad I worked as a translator for a British oil company and people saw me as a traitor.
(18) Inside the cavernous hall, Cameron kicked off with a joke that failed, tragically, to rise – he felt a "bit of a traitor", he said, because "here I am in a bakery, but the thing is, I went out the other day and bought myself my own breadmaker".
(19) He is a traitor because, by a cold-blooded and calculated act, he attacked your country by significantly damaging its capacity to defend itself from its enemies, and in doing so, he put your citizen’s lives at risk.
(20) Nobody knows if he defected or he's a traitor or he was kidnapped.