as in betrayers
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 traitors
He is now considered one of America’s worst traitors.
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Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
You are being forced to surrender your country without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves, and scoundrels who have seized power.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The calamity is only exacerbated by the fact that Zionist opposition parties call for Netanyahu’s ouster but do not dare to raise the flag of peace and coexistence with the Palestinians, fearing to appear unpatriotic in wartime or to be smeared by right-wingers as traitors.
—Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
Letters To The Editor, The Mercury News, 11 Oct. 2024
You are being forced to surrender your country without a fight to the gang of traitors, thieves, and scoundrels who have seized power.
—Alexei Navalny, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
The calamity is only exacerbated by the fact that Zionist opposition parties call for Netanyahu’s ouster but do not dare to raise the flag of peace and coexistence with the Palestinians, fearing to appear unpatriotic in wartime or to be smeared by right-wingers as traitors.
—Aluf Benn, Foreign Affairs, 4 Oct. 2024
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“Traitors.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitors. Accessed 25 Nov. 2024.
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