traitress

variants or traitoress
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Noun
  • Hemphill spoke alongside former Capitol police officer Winston Pingeon, who described being punched in the face, pepper sprayed, and called a traitor by the rioters.
    Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair, 7 Jan. 2026
  • The J6ers were not insurrectionists, traitors, and miscreants but patriots, heroes, and innocents.
    Jamie Thompson, The Atlantic, 6 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • The Conservatives, currently led by Kemi Badenoch, slammed Braverman following her defection, characterizing her as an inevitable turncoat and questioning her mental faculties.
    Timothy Nerozzi, The Washington Examiner, 26 Jan. 2026
  • What starts as an innocent father/daughter college visit takes a shocking turn when Tony brutally strangles a Mob turncoat.
    Dan Snierson, Entertainment Weekly, 27 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • This notably happened during the Civil War with enlistment bounties to track down deserters.
    Michael Smolens, San Diego Union-Tribune, 28 Dec. 2025
  • Harry Truman granted amnesty to certain World War II deserters, while Jimmy Carter granted pardons to hundreds of thousands of individuals who dodged the draft during the Vietnam War.
    Stewart Ulrich, The Conversation, 15 Dec. 2025
Noun
  • The turnabout is particularly evident in the tech sector, where five-day in-office weeks are now commonplace.
    Dade Hayes, Deadline, 21 Jan. 2026
  • Canada’s complicated relationship with China Friday’s deal in Beijing marks a turnabout in Canadian policy.
    Paul Wiseman, Los Angeles Times, 17 Jan. 2026
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 31 Jan. 2026.

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