Thesaurus results for BACKSTABBER

backstabber

noun

as in traitor

one who betrays a trust or an allegiance a backstabber taking credit for work she didn't do while bad-mouthing the rest of the team to the boss

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Recent Examples of backstabber The result is a scathing takedown that will find techies throughout the Valley looking over their shoulders and speculating on who is who amongst the show’s motley collection of fictional backstabbers obsessed with growing their profit margin and amassing wealth and power. —

Randy Myers, Mercury News, 7 Apr. 2026 There were no suggestions that good family friends were liars or backstabbers, no angry exchanges between a man’s wife and the same man’s sister. —

Alex Gurley, PEOPLE, 21 Jan. 2026 Prayer mats lie next to heavy artillery; smoke billows from parked whips; backstabbers get cut first. —

Pitchfork, 10 Dec. 2025

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traitor

Noun

As the castle’s internal order collapses under the weight of a string of baffling crimes, Araki strikes a fragile alliance with Kuroda Kanbei – a razor-minded captive languishing in his own dungeon – in a race to root out a traitor before Oda’s army closes in.

— Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
In the context of his time, Jesus was considered a traitor — an enemy of the Roman Empire.

— Michael J Christensen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 Mar. 2026