1
: one who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty
2
: one who commits treason
Examples of traitor in a Sentence
She has been called a traitor to the liberal party's cause.
He was a traitor who betrayed his country by selling military secrets to the enemy.
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There are people in the government who qualify for the term traitor.
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Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
Clearly, curator Samantha Johnston, who also happens to be CPAC’s executive director, is playing the traitor here by engaging with artists whose main tools are prompts, entered into programs, which generate images based on billions of data sets stored digitally around the globe.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
The big brass tasks the preening, excessively kempt George Woodhouse (Fassbender) with investigating her and some other colleagues in order to root out the traitor.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
Big Brother bestie Britney behind as the last traitor in the game.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 7 Mar. 2025
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Letters To The Editor, Orlando Sentinel, 18 Mar. 2025
Clearly, curator Samantha Johnston, who also happens to be CPAC’s executive director, is playing the traitor here by engaging with artists whose main tools are prompts, entered into programs, which generate images based on billions of data sets stored digitally around the globe.
—Ray Mark Rinaldi, The Denver Post, 17 Mar. 2025
The big brass tasks the preening, excessively kempt George Woodhouse (Fassbender) with investigating her and some other colleagues in order to root out the traitor.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 15 Mar. 2025
Big Brother bestie Britney behind as the last traitor in the game.
—Nick Caruso, TVLine, 7 Mar. 2025
See All Example Sentences for traitor
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“Traitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/traitor. Accessed 2 Apr. 2025.
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traitor
noun
trai·tor
ˈtrāt-ər 
1
: one who betrays another's trust or is false to an obligation or duty
2
: one who commits treason
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