traitress

variants or traitoress

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of Synonyms for traitress
Noun
  • Modern American presidents have called their domestic political opponents, or enemies, many things over the years, but never a traitor.
    Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 28 July 2025
  • In the game, traitors are secretly chosen at the outset while the remaining contestants must work together to unmask them before being eliminated themselves.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 25 June 2025
Noun
  • Some have likened Barrett to the late Justice David Souter, who was appointed by Republican President George H.W. Bush and later branded a turncoat.
    Devin Dwyer, ABC News, 25 June 2025
  • In the pantheon of Bond villains, turncoats from MI6 have often served as some of the best baddies.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • But the group also used it as a tool of execution against deserters, inadvertently showcasing the brittleness of a regime that had to use fear to motivate even its mercenary soldiers to stay in the fight.
    Nicolas Niarchos, New York Times, 13 May 2025
  • Meanwhile, Byrd’s wide dramatic palette and flexible voice make the most of thankless roles as the movement’s deserter and Montgomery’s white power brokers.
    Hannah Edgar, Chicago Tribune, 7 June 2025
Noun
  • Ukrainians have felt stunned by the Trump administration's turnabout on Ukraine.
    Eleanor Beardsley, NPR, 12 Apr. 2025
  • That’s a turnabout for the governor, who had mentioned those communities last year and in other previous statements recognizing the shooting on June 12, 2016.
    Steven Lemongello, The Orlando Sentinel, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • But the president's new FTC chair, Andrew Ferguson, is an outspoken Big Tech critic on X and is signaling the panel won't be stacked with pro-industry quislings.
    Marc Caputo, Axios, 10 Feb. 2025
  • 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
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“Traitress.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/traitress. Accessed 2 Aug. 2025.

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