traitor
IPA: trˈeɪtɝ
noun
- Someone who violates an allegiance and betrays their country; someone guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers their country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place entrusted to their defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished.
- Someone who takes arms and levies war against their country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering their country.
- (by extension) One who betrays any confidence or trust.
verb
- To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
adjective
- Traitorous.
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Examples of "traitor" in Sentences
- But calling Bush a traitor is a pretty good start too.
- Mr. Jarniman, I hear, thinks it what he calls a traitor in the camp.
- There was what they called a traitor on the New York, the Yankee's flagship.
- I gave the legal definition of the term traitor, and all the elements involved.
- To me a traitor is a political party that would fund and train alqueda – and who might that party be?
- Sometimes, if this became too repetitive, the term traitor would be substituted with the term unpatriotic to describe anyone who dared question anything or who dared to express dissenting views.
- For the traitor appears not a traitor� “He speaks in the accents familiar to his victims, and wears their face and their garment, and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men.
- The fact of the matter is, devaluing the currency and then accusing anyone who actually reacts to the devaluing by raising prices as a traitor is a common enough (historically) thing for any government of any ideology to do, and it rarely ends well.
- The only logical argument that can be made that Bush might not be a traitor is the rather technical argument that, since CONGRESS HAS NEVER DECLARED WAR ON CHINA OR ON AL QAEDA, Bush cannot be a traitor since there is “no enemy” to be giving aid and comfort to.
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