traitress

noun

variants or traitoress
Definition of traitressnext
as in traitor

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  1. traitor
  2. turncoat
  3. deserter
  4. turnabout
  5. quisling
Noun
  • The Traitors season 3 cast portraits revealed (exclusive) With 21 contestants and a mysterious number of traitors among them, it's bound to be a rollicking good time.
    Lester Fabian Brathwaite, EW.com, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Advertisement The same applies to UCLA and USC, traitors who destroyed the Pac-12, and are now condemned to fighting for seventh place every year in the Big Ten.
    Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of traitor
Noun
  • Others to Watch: Marc Andreessen: A vc worth $1.9 billion, Andreessen made waves as an ex-Democrat donating to pro-Trump groups—among the first key Silicon Valley turncoats—and went to Mar-A-Lago on election night.
    Joe Walsh, Forbes, 3 Dec. 2024
  • Some of you certainly want Cowboy-loving turncoat Isaac shipped off to Axios Dallas, pronto.
    Isaac Avilucea, Axios, 27 Nov. 2024
Definition of turncoat
Noun
  • In 1782, they were tasked with apprehending Hessian deserters, earning a reward of two guineas for each one recovered, whether dead or alive.
    Kinsey Gidick, Smithsonian Magazine, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Rachel knows that William is too good to be a deserter.
    Lincee Ray, EW.com, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of deserter
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  • Cease, especially, could fetch solid prospects in return, a startling turnabout for the Padres, who in recent years have been the ones shoveling promising minor leaguers from their fertile farm system to others in exchange for win-now veterans.
    Steve Henson, Los Angeles Times, 13 Dec. 2024
  • This was a turnabout for a commander who, Payne notes, previously endorsed the quiet regulation of red-light areas patronized by U.S. soldiers during the Mexican border war of 1916.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 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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