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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Later down the line, after being summoned to resolve a conflict that was a front for the Emperor’s treachery, Khazan was deemed a traitor to the empire, and he and his comrades — like Ozma — were executed or exiled for aiding a traitor.
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Scott McRae, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
There are people in the government who qualify for the term traitor.
—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
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Scott McRae, Rolling Stone, 24 Mar. 2025
There are people in the government who qualify for the term traitor.
—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
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“Traitor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitor. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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