Crossword clues for traitor
traitor
- Turncoat’s characteristic: wanting gold
- False friend
- Unfaithful one
- Disloyal person
- Brutus, e.g
- Arnold, notably
- Treasonous fellow
- Perfidious person
- Arnold, for one
- Arnold, e.g
- Treasonous person
- Someone guilty of treason
- Person with trust issues?
- Person who moves from side to side?
- Person who commits treason
- Perfidious one
- Ninth circle of hell occupant
- Candidate for the ninth circle of hell
- Benedict Arnold, e.g
- Judas, infamously
- Brutus, e.g.
- Rat
- This isn't true
- Sellout
- 37-Across, e.g.
- A person who says one thing and does another
- Someone who betrays his country by committing treason
- Benedict Arnold, for one
- Double agent
- Quisling
- Arnold was one
- Arnold, e.g.
- Characteristic feature or mole
- One might betray characteristic worry, oddly overlooked
- Rat is feature on old river
- Blunt possibly in raising flatbread expertise
- Betrayer of their country
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Traitor \Trai"tor\, n. [OE. traitour, OF. tra["i]tor, tra["i]teur, F. tre[^i]tre, L. traditor, fr. tradere, traditum, to deliver, to give up or surrender treacherously, to betray; trans across, over + dare to give. See Date time, and cf. Betray, Tradition, Traditor, Treason.]
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One who violates his allegiance and betrays his country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. See Treason.
O passing traitor, perjured and unjust!
--Shak. Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust; a betrayer. ``This false traitor death.''
--Chaucer.
Traitor \Trai"tor\, a.
Traitorous. [R.]
--Spenser. Pope.
Traitor \Trai"tor\, v. t.
To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive. [Obs.] ``
But time, it traitors me.''
--Lithgow.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1200, "one who betrays a trust or duty," from Old French traitor, traitre "traitor, villain, deceiver" (11c., Modern French traître), from Latin traditor "betrayer," literally "one who delivers," agent noun from stem of tradere "deliver, surrender" (see tradition). Originally usually with a suggestion of Judas Iscariot; especially of one false to his allegiance to a sovereign, government, or cause from late 15c.
Wiktionary
traitorous n. 1 One who violates his allegiance and betrays his/her country; one guilty of treason; one who, in breach of trust, delivers his country to an enemy, or yields up any fort or place intrusted to his defense, or surrenders an army or body of troops to the enemy, unless when vanquished; also, one who takes arms and levies war against his country; or one who aids an enemy in conquering his country. 2 Hence, one who betrays any confidence or trust. v
To act the traitor toward; to betray; to deceive.
WordNet
n. someone who betrays his country by committing treason [syn: treasonist]
a person who says one thing and does another [syn: double-crosser, double-dealer, two-timer, betrayer]
Wikipedia
Traitor is a 2002 novel by Matthew Stover in the New Jedi Order series, which is set in the Star Wars universe. It is the thirteenth installment of the series.
"Traitor" is the 29th episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a British 1960s Supermarionation television series co-created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. Written by Tony Barwick and directed by Alan Perry, it was first broadcast on 23 April 1968 on ATV Midlands.
In this episode, following a series of Spectrum hovercraft crashes in the Australian Outback, the Mysterons claim that there is a traitor within the organisation.
Traitor is a BBC television drama written by Dennis Potter and directed by Alan Bridges, which featured in the Play for Today series on 14 October 1971. It stars John Le Mesurier as Adrian Harris, a character loosely based on Kim Philby. Le Mesurier's performance won him the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1972.
Traitor is a 2008 American spy thriller film, based on an idea by Steve Martin who is also an executive producer. It is written and directed by Jeffrey Nachmanoff and stars Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in the lead roles.
A traitor is someone who commits treason.
Traitor may also refer to:
- Traitors (album), an album by Misery Index
- "Traitor", a song by Motörhead from Rock 'n' Roll
- "Traitor" (Captain Scarlet), an episode of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons
- Traitor (film), a film starring Don Cheadle
- Traitor (Star Wars novel), a 2002 New Jedi Order novel by Matthew Stover
- Traitor (TV drama) (1971), a British television play by Dennis Potter
- " Traitors Never Play Hangman", a song by Bring Me the Horizon, also referred to as "Traitors"
"Traitor" is the 20th episode of the first season of the CW television series The Secret Circle, and the series' 20th episode overall. It was aired on April 26, 2012. The episode was written by Roger Grant & Katie Wech and it was directed by Eagle Egilsson.
Traitor (2007) is a novel by New Zealand author Stephen Daisley. It won the Prime Minister's Literary Award in Australia in 2011 for Best Fiction.
Usage examples of "traitor".
Although she knew what she was doing was right, she felt like a traitor pointing an accusatory finger at the brother she loved.
The confusion of the traitors was entirely that of fear, for our barrage had not yet reached them.
If he supported Jarkadon, then the proclamation of bastardy effectively named him as a traitor for fathering Vindax and he must turn against his own son as a pretender.
A traitor not to the king, but to all the braw men who fought for Prince Charlie.
Prynsace the Quen of Implande, one that was your Servaunt but now beinge both a Traitor and a manifald parjured Traitor, which Heaven above doth abhorre, the erth below detest, the sun moone and starres be eschamed of, and all Creatures doo curse and ajudge unworthy of breth and life, do wish onelie to die your Penytent.
Believe me, the secret traitor will not dare to absent himself from an expurgation so solemn, lest his very absence should be matter of suspicion.
Amos Marle, when he arrived, was to find proof of his theory that Frenchy was the traitor.
She was about to spirit you away here, and had slain the traitor Faurbuhl to prevent him from raising the hue and cry, when you were returned to your room that last evening at Earthfast and misapprehended all.
That was all he needed: the people on Outbound Flight assuming he was a renegade or, worse, a traitor.
Cow, who having done some wrong has been outcasted from her Herd, you lose faith in me, and treat me as a traitor.
On swift, unerring feet the traitor Pandan traversed the jungle Country, guided by the instinct of the hunter and the cunning of the savage.
Hugging the parados, messengers carried the word in both directions and presently periscopes were leveled above the parados and keen eyes were searching out the traitor.
And the Parthenians who followed Geoffrey called him a traitor to their cause.
He handled the traitor contemptuously as a perjured, suborned witness, a false servant, a man who, as he proceeded to show, was a scoundrel steeped in crime, whose word was utterly worthless, and who, no doubt, had been bought to bring these charges against his sometime master.
Biscarrat, repulsed by his friends, not able to accompany them, without passing in the eyes of Porthos and Aramis for a traitor and a perjurer, with painfully attentive ear and still supplicating hands leaned against the rough side of a rock which he thought must be exposed to the fire of the musketeers.