as in betrayer
one who betrays a trust or an allegiance
accused by her family of being a traitor when she sold their traditionally animal-friendly business to a competitor known to use animals for testing its products
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Recent Examples of traitor
The Chinese Communist Party must be crushed—and there is no one better to crush them than the White House-dwelling class traitor par excellence, Donald Trump.
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David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
But that guy was a traitor, feeding information (false, in this case) to the Empire, so Saw shoots him, not Wilmon!
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
The American president is a traitor to the democratic world.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
If that isn’t pressure enough, the women are faced with a mysterious traitor who emerges, years later, as the three friends are torn apart.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2025
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David Faris, MSNBC Newsweek, 11 Apr. 2025
But that guy was a traitor, feeding information (false, in this case) to the Empire, so Saw shoots him, not Wilmon!
—Jesse Hassenger, Vulture, 30 Apr. 2025
The American president is a traitor to the democratic world.
—Ryan Gaydos, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
If that isn’t pressure enough, the women are faced with a mysterious traitor who emerges, years later, as the three friends are torn apart.
—Clare Mulroy, USA Today, 25 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traitor
snake
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Testing their ability to parse through patchy visual information, the puzzles prompted participants to identify ambiguous black-and-white images of objects and of animals, such as snakes, snails, and spiders.—
Sam Walters,
Discover Magazine,
16 May 2025
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The exact location of the den complex are withheld for the snakes' safety, according to Bachhuber.—
Anthony Robledo,
USA Today,
15 May 2025
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“Traitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitor. Accessed 2 Jun. 2025.
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