traitress

noun

variants or traitoress
Definition of traitressnext
as in traitor

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for traitress
  1. traitor
  2. turncoat
  3. deserter
  4. turnabout
  5. quisling
Noun
  • Like Trump, Carlson appeals to his base by positioning himself as a class traitor—not a man of the people, exactly, but an apostate from the cosmopolitan élite.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 1 Nov. 2024
  • Cumming will lead a new group of 21 traitors from across a variety of other reality series.
    Anne Easton, Forbes, 31 Oct. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • For instance, the story of Armand, the accidental turncoat semi-ex-mafia guy played by Max Casella, could easily have come from either of the crime masterpieces Winter worked on.
    Sean T. Collins, Vulture, 3 Nov. 2024
  • With a turncoat on the loose among the agents, time is of the essence to root out the loose cannon before they, ahem, fire.
    Charlie Mason, TVLine, 16 Sep. 2024
Definition of turncoat
Noun
  • Knight, a Mississippi farmer and Confederate deserter, led a rebellion against the Confederacy during the American Civil War.
    Travis Bean, Forbes, 2 Nov. 2024
  • Because of the security risks faced by Russian deserters, pseudonyms are used throughout.
    Sarah A. Topol, New York Times, 20 Sep. 2024
Definition of deserter
Noun
  • Olson revealed the turnabout crossover Thursday on the red carpet at Variety’s Power of Women event.
    Angelique Jackson, Variety, 25 Oct. 2024
  • In a turnabout this year, the Trump campaign has encouraged early and mail-in voting in 2024 to avoid the same scenario again.
    Joey Garrison, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
Definition of turnabout
Noun
  • Erdogan, meanwhile, lambasted Kilicdaroglu as a quisling who is in cahoots with the West and the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, a Kurdish separatist group that both Ankara and Washington consider a terrorist entity.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2023
  • And Kilicdaroglu was an easy mark for Erdogan, who has belittled him for years and cast him during the campaign as both a terrorist and a quisling for Western interests — accusations that stuck in the minds of some voters.
    Kareem Fahim, Washington Post, 27 May 2023
Definition of quisling
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