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turncoat

/turn-koht/US // ˈtɜrnˌkoʊt //UK // (ˈtɜːnˌkəʊt) //

叛徒,叛变者,叛变的人,叛乱者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who changes to the opposite party or faction, reverses principles, etc.; renegade.

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Examples

  • Many Poles use the term “turncoat” in a completely different way.

  • More often than not, turncoat spies are successfully recruited as one-offs, through serendipity and dumb luck.

  • The notes variously called him a turncoat, a RINO, a traitor, or worse.

  • But for many Republicans today, this quality makes him something of a turncoat.

  • Yet another Republican turncoat, Powell obviously endorsed Obama twice.

  • The reader now knows that the pity thus bestowed upon that pitiful fox-hunting turncoat was utterly thrown away.

  • Mr. Scott is an honest man, and naturally thinks me a hypocrite and turncoat as well as a fool.

  • He had no desire to be addressed by his name before this precarious mob already mad with rage at a turncoat.

  • Why, 'tis the man who allowed the rebels to seize Southsea Castle, the same who was hand in glove with the turncoat, Goring.

  • He realized the weight of misery this pathetic turncoat might expect thereafter at the hands of Britt and his crew of “Busters.”