Synonyms of traitors

traitors

noun

plural of traitor

as in betrayers

one who betrays a trust or an allegiance

accused by her family of being a traitor when she sold their traditionally animal-friendly business to a competitor known to use animals for testing its products

Synonyms & Similar Words

• betrayers
• serpents
• snakes
• conspirators
• renegades
• turncoats
• collaborators
• quislings
• Judases
• backstabbers
• informers
• informants
• apostates
• double-crossers
• subversives
• intriguers
• collaborationists
• deserters
• subverters
• gossips
• gossipers
• double-dealers
• plotters
• sellouts
• schemers
• rats
• coconspirators
• recreants
• defectors
• accommodationists
• snitches
• squealers
• talkers
• tattlers
• gossipmongers
• tattletales
• stool pigeons
• rumormongers
• blabbermouths
• snitchers
• telltales
• talebearers

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of traitors

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

The king refused to look at it, and issued the Proclamation of Rebellion, declaring the colonists traitors and hiring 30,000 German mercenaries to help crush them. — The Week Uk, TheWeek, 4 July 2026

Just one more thing … this organization does not tolerate traitors! — Gina Kalsi, PEOPLE, 24 June 2026

Keep your actual and suspected traitors closer – the non-loyal, uncommitted, secretive, suspicious, dishonest, deceitful, chronically negative, and regularly undermining. — Peter D. Banko, Forbes.com, 18 June 2026

Both groups were accused of being spies, traitors and collaborators, according to the report. — Sam Metz, Los Angeles Times, 9 June 2026

When news of Israel’s secret outposts in Iraq’s desert emerged, Iraqis admonished their leaders as traitors, and the boisterous militiamen affiliated with the government as impostors for allowing their land to be colonized by an enemy. — Nabil Salih, Time, 26 May 2026

The president has spent a decade calling his rivals communists and traitors, among other hyperbolic insults. — Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic, 28 Apr. 2026