Compromise one's talents

Usage examples of sellout.

Presumably they were told you were a sellout, that you might give up their names.

The piece about Justice Thomas quoted just about everyone in North America who had something bad to say about him, naturally including many who consider him a sellout and an Uncle Tom.

Student radicals today may call Kennedy a phony liberal and a glamorous sellout, but only the very young will deny that it was Kennedy who got them excited enough to want to change the American reality, instead of just quitting it.

Unlike many nonstudent activists, he has no degree, and in the society that appalls him even a sellout needs credentials.

Many a man has whipped up a hell of a broth of reasons to justify his sellout, but few recommend the taste of it.

But I kept quiet and let him ramble on in general about the shitty state of everything, about all the fuckin psychedelic sellouts and nut-cutting feminist harpies and brain-crippling shrinks and mother-raping bulls who run this black fuckin world.

We published three issues, they were all immediate sellouts, yet somehow we went broke.

There were never any sellouts, but the 30,000 or so regulars were extremely heavy drinkers, and at least 10,000 of them were out there for no other reason except to get involved in serious violence.

And when, in 1841, the great Charles Lyell traveled to America to give a series of lectures in Boston, sellout audiences of three thousand at a time packed into the Lowell Institute to hear his tranquilizing descriptions of marine zeolites and seismic perturbations in Campania.

I wonder, when the red fight on the camera goes off, does Bill O’Reilly or Chris Matthews or Tucke r Carlson ever say to these sellouts, “Hey, there’s a house next to mine for sale—you oughta move in!