Synonyms for traitor
ˈtreɪ tərtraitor

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1. traitor

   Synonyms:
   adversary, antagonist, betrayer, deserter, enemy, hater, opponent, renegade

   Antonyms:
   adherent, aid, aider, ally, backer, disciple, follower, partisan, supporter

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1. traitor

   Synonyms:
   rebel, renegade, betrayer, turncoat

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1. traitor, treasonistnoun

   someone who betrays his country by committing treason

   Synonyms:
   treasonist, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, double-crosser

2. double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer, traitornoun

   a person who says one thing and does another

   Synonyms:
   betrayer, double-crosser, blabber, double-dealer, squealer, two-timer, rat, informer, treasonist

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1. • Criminal
   • Deceiver

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1. oathbreaker

   oathbreaker, one who breaks a sworn oath

   Submitted by rinat on September 10, 2019  

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1. traitornoun

   Synonyms:
   betrayer (especially of one's country), deceiver, renegade, apostate, rebel, insurgent, revolter, deserter, perfidious person

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1. List of paraphrases for "traitor":

   betrayer, treacherous, backstabber, cheater, traitorous, azamat, trickster, judas, villain, scab, snitch, mole

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How to use traitor in a sentence?

1. Hendrik W. Van Loon:

   In history as in life it is success that counts. Start a political upheaval and let yourself be caught, and you will hang as a traitor. But place yourself at the head of a rebellion and gain your point, and all future generations will worship you as the Father of their Country.

2. Wendell Phillips:

   Write on my gravestone: Infidel, Traitor.--infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

3. Frank Guridy:

   The sanitizing of Ali's image in recent years has led many to forget that he was reviled by many during the 1960s for his conversion to Islam and for his refusal to be inducted into the U.S. armed forces, he was seen as a traitor to the United States of America.

4. Officer Fanone:

   I was grabbed, beaten, tased, all while being called a traitor to my country.

5. Elizabeth Bowen:

   The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him, for all the pleas of the heart.