traitress

variants or traitoress
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Noun
  • McCarthy’s rampage was about rooting out traitors.
    Ali Breland, The Atlantic, 6 Mar. 2026
  • Each night, the traitors eliminate one faithful by figuratively murdering them, ending their time on the show.
    Tiney Ricciardi, Denver Post, 3 Mar. 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
  • But the result is that a fair number of former Sanders allies or staffers have turned out to be MAGA turncoats, cranks, or washed out of politics altogether.
    Ryan Cooper, Washington Post, 20 Jan. 2026
Noun
  • 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
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
  • Recent presidential-election trends illustrate this turnabout.
    Mark Leibovich, The Atlantic, 11 Feb. 2026
  • Since Virginia is one of the few purple states remaining, this sudden turnabout reveals where Democrats and Republicans disagree on higher education.
    Andy Smarick, Washington Post, 2 Feb. 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 10 Mar. 2026.

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