- adulterous
- backstabber
- betrayal
- betrayer
- break ranks idiom
- chicane
- deserter
- desertion
- faithless
- faithlessly
- faithlessness
- false
- fifth column
- sellout
- stab someone in the back idiom
- tergiversation
- throw someone to the lions idiom
- throw someone under the bus idiom
- treasonable
- unfaithfulness
Meaning of turncoat in English
turncoat | Intermediate English
Examples of turncoat
turncoat
He was convinced the government had set up his dad, forcing him to confess -- even to his kids -- that he was a turncoat.
From OregonLive.com
Traitors are never respected by the people they turncoat to!
From The Atlantic
Some turncoats had even been heard to declare that camels were far better than mules in any way anyone might compare the two species.
From Project Gutenberg
They were both "turncoats," the people said, and they were shunned by both sides.
From Project Gutenberg
For an age of bigots and turncoats she, indeed, seemed unsuited.
From Project Gutenberg
They would be more interesting than the turncoats, who, almost without exception, fell into two groups.
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What he was brought up to, that he would abide by; and the sin beyond repentance, to his mind, was the sin of the turncoat.
From Project Gutenberg
He is a turncoat, he was not true to his profession.
From Project Gutenberg
One of the three--a dark-eyed man--thereupon changed manner and said he had no time for a rascally turncoat.
From Project Gutenberg
These turncoats are the sympathetic, who are carried away by a rush of popular enthusiasm, and the fearful or peaceable, who dread or dislike violence.
From Project Gutenberg
Who's here so base would be a turncoat?
From Project Gutenberg
I was the son of a man branded as a turncoat and an informer, of one who was the worst of traitors!
From Project Gutenberg
As soon as he has left the court, we have a quarter of an hour to ourselves--the turncoat will be done up before the warder returns.
From Project Gutenberg
He is a turncoat, who has deserted the ranks of our enemies and passed into our camp, in order to aid us to become masters of the other animals.
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