(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.
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.