Thesaurus results for BETRAYER

betrayer

noun

as in informer

a person who provides information about another's wrongdoing the arrested drug dealer vowed that he would get his revenge on his betrayer

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one who betrays a trust or an allegiance the betrayer of Anne Frank's family in Amsterdam has never been identified for certain

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Recent Examples of betrayer Then go ahead and depict the country’s prime minister as the betrayer of Christ. — David Frum, The Atlantic, 21 May 2026 Lesch plays the savior’s anguished betrayer not as an intellectual equal who fiercely debates him and loses all patience with the movement. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 May 2026 Judas, the betrayer of Jesus Christ, was believed to be the 13th Apostle to join the table at the Last Supper. — Chad Murphy, Cincinnati Enquirer, 13 Feb. 2026

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Noun

One of State Security’s main goals, as well as a central source of its strength, is turning civilians into informers.

— Abraham Jiménez Enoa, The Dial, 19 May 2026
And so every regime invests in having student informers.

— Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 23 Jan. 2026

Definition of informer

Noun

Those who opposed the coup, like Tom Keith's grandfather, are still often thought of as traitors, just as his distant relatives are.

— Lee Cowan, CBS News, 12 July 2026
Irina and Raskova will enjoy a long, successful professional collaboration, purging Star City of traitors and threats and bringing down Petrovsky in a plot that leads to his ending his life in ignominy, having confessed to crimes against the state.

— Sophie Brookover, Vulture, 10 July 2026

Definition of traitor

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The Justice Department unveiled this case against it, essentially arguing that SPLC had been defrauding its donors by paying informants within far-right groups who were infiltrating those groups.

— Hanna Rosin, The Atlantic, 9 July 2026
Earlier this year, a Times investigation revealed ICE deported an informant who had turned against two of his co-defendants in a meth smuggling case.

— James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 8 July 2026

Definition of informant

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Kevin Tubbs grew up in a comfortable suburb outside Omaha, Nebraska, in a canary-yellow ranch house filled with dogs.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 10 July 2026
Carolina Jessamine This vine with sweet-scented, canary-yellow flowers in the spring is native to the southern United States.

— Nadia Hassani, The Spruce, 9 July 2026

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