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Synonyms for turncoat

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Synonyms for turncoat

a disloyal person who betrays or deserts his cause or religion or political party or friend etc

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(Critics say they don't understand my position, that I am a turncoat. The problem is that divisiveness in the country runs deep.)
Turncoat x Purity Cascade Gin is available in 70cl bottles and Purity has described it as "a collusion of modern pure quality distilling and brewing".
He said the Waderas, corrupt politicians and turncoat elite class are not the catalysts of change but only a political leadership of working class people could bring a sustainable change.
Asked if it is already part of Filipino culture to be a balimbing or be a turncoat, Casiple disagreed, saying it's just a form of survival, especially in politics.
So why did so many MPs become turncoats and trigger Article 50?
There's many I've run across in a long life, but one of the more common ones which took me a long time to identify is, for lack of a better term, "the turncoat".
SNOWDEN isn't a whistle-blower, he's a treacherous turncoat. Mick Bidewell Newcastle upon Tyne THE impact on GCHQ is worrying.
ALL parties are now lobbying for your vote And appreciate you more if you are a turncoat It's a struggle to know where to put your cross Is anybody worthy of being the boss?
LOUIS Walsh is not only a turncoat, he's so stupid he manages to shoot himself in the foot at the same time.
Mixed messages as Old Ma Osbourne, 99, and the gang praised turncoat teen Hannah Sheares after creating "great telly" by getting her to ditch her sobbing bandmates and go solo.
Wars have been lost due to poor intelligence, due to turncoat spies and due to turncoat public officials (i.e., those who have turned away from the truth).
drunken & pickled in a medical lab an Aria of turncoat cells that
The discovery was made after a mafia turncoat confessed to having sunk the boat with explosives.
Textual evidence of the life of Simon Girty, American revolutionary turncoat; an historian's guide to the Draper manuscript collection of the Wisconsin Historical Society.
The carry bill was torpedoed in the last one by a couple of turncoat politicians after it passed, was vetoed by an anti-gun governor now facing accusations of corruption, and lost on the veto over ride because the turncoats defected.