Thesaurus results for INFORMER

informer

noun

in-ˈfȯr-mər

as in informant

a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing the informer who told the police about that conspiracy has angered a lot of dangerous people

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Recent Examples of informer Option 2: If one prisoner informs while the other stays silent, the informer will go free while the silent one receives the harshest sentence. —

Michael Ashley, Forbes.com, 29 July 2025 The Nazis set up secret squads in the camps to conduct beatings and killings of prisoners thought to be too friendly with U.S. officials or were accused of being informers. —

Peter Lucas, Boston Herald, 10 July 2025 Reporting from human intelligence assets – spies or unwitting informers with firsthand or secondhand knowledge – may provide information on internal Iranian assessments. —

Joshua Rovner, The Conversation, 2 July 2025 The court can instruct the jury to view with caution the testimony of, say, an informer or a drug addict. —

Daniel Arkin, NBC news, 10 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for informer

Recent Examples of Synonyms for informer

informant

Noun

For months, the couple worked with the FBI as informants, with Katas even staging a raid by arranging a meeting with Bateman under the guise of filming.

— Emily Blackwood, PEOPLE, 11 Apr. 2026
The suspect police were looking for, based on a tip from a confidential informant, was living in a different apartment, and was wearing a police tracking device while awaiting trial for a recent arrest.

— Adam Harrington, CBS News, 6 Apr. 2026