(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.
Turncoat
Definition:
(n.) One who forsakes his party or his principles; a renegade; an apostate.
Example Sentences:
(1) Messina Denaro was also part of the gang that in 1993 snatched Giuseppe di Matteo, the 11-year-old son of a turncoat.
(2) Photograph: Mimi Mollica for the Guardian Antonino Vaccarino, a sprightly, bespectacled 68-year-old, today runs a small cinema in the back streets of town, but once served as mayor before being jailed for five years for mafia membership – on the basis, he claims, of false accusations made by a turncoat.
(3) Several members of his unit expressed dismay on Monday that a man they considered a turncoat would be hailed as a hero instead of being punished for allegedly abandoning his post and indirectly causing the death of other soldiers.
(4) Is new Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull already a climate change turncoat?
(5) And now St Vince of Cable has been busted down from visionary analyst of recession to turncoat enabler of George Osborne's austerity measures.
(6) "We have never found one, but many turncoats have spoken of them.
(7) With another Tory MP announcing that he will be leaving the Commons and pointedly wishing Carswell luck – the turncoat seeming more secure in his position, not less – others may see a brighter future with Farage.
(8) The right can’t forgive the Lib Dems for what it sees as their halo-polishing sanctimony; to the left they’re bedroom-tax enablers, tuition-fee turncoats, the sort of chancers who marched against the Iraq war only to turn around in power and vote to bomb Syria.
(9) Although embarrassing at the time, it helpfully portrayed Gove as a reluctant, rather than calculating, turncoat.
(10) Quite frankly, I think both positions are irresponsible.” Trudeau’s search for a disappearing middle ground met disaster earlier this week when Toronto Liberals rejected Eve Adams – a Tory turncoat the leader had hoped to nominate as one of his own candidates.
(11) In the case of the country’s far-right scene – whose membership the BfV estimates to number 23,850 as of last year – these informants are not simply turncoats who make some money on the side by giving tips to police.
(12) Prosecutors have also sought permission to seize the assets of entrepreneur Carmelo Patti, a former owner of the Valtur holiday village group, who has been accused by turncoats of being a front man for Messina Denaro.