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UK
/tˈɜːnkəʊt/
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[ US /ˈtɝnˌkoʊt/ ]
[ US /ˈtɝnˌkoʊt/ ]
NOUN
- a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc.
How To Use turncoat In A Sentence
- The profile of the defector, the turncoat, is that they repudiate everything they've ever done.
- Treating terrorism like organised crime, investigators used informants, turncoat terrorists, telephone bugs and confessions to build the case.
- Also to be skittled out were such die-hard PML-Q men as the over-articulate Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, the far-from-neutral NA Speaker Chaudhry Amir Hussain and PPP turncoats Rao Sikandar Iqbal and Dr Sher Afgan. US Must Play Positive Role To Save Pakistan
- The liberals deride him as a turncoat while the right tentatively seeks to claim him.
- The fear of revenge by the Stalinist system against turncoats and prisoners of war was dispelled by references, in German Wehrmacht propaganda - in accordance with the claims of the Goebbels Propaganda Ministry - to the near collapse of the Stalinist state, brought about, if not directly by German victory, then at least by inner opposition inside the country. The Civic Platform - A Political Journal of Ideas and Analysis
- You will be known as a turncoat who supported York. The Red Queen
- Like turncoats throughout history, they were in danger of ending up distrusted by both sides.
- You're nothing but a yellow-bellied turncoat.
- Wells, a white captive raised by the Miami, was a turncoat who deserted his adopted family to join General Wayne.
- They've stolen our ground but we seem not to be able to take their's without becoming turncoats.