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Meanings of informer in English
Usage of informer in English
1
After five years as an informer, I was prepared to believe anything.
2
The sneaking figure of the informer was swallowed up in the fog.
3
In accordance with Indian ideas, the treacherous informer was waylaid and killed.
4
It was only at that point that he decided to turn informer.
5
The inspector and interpreter followed, while the informer escaped from the house.
6
The informer, blank-faced and stern, noted the crime and informed the police.
7
The prosecution relied almost entirely on the evidence of a single informer.
8
The wrath of his tribe was roused, and the informer was murdered.
9
Ms McGlinchey insists she was never an informer or in the IRA.
10
And him, he thought in agony, he thinks I'm a goddam informer.
11
You were an informer, the lowest of the low, despised by all.
12
He's a spy, an informer, and tortures the life out of everybody.
13
A man so inept, he hires his own informer to expose him.
14
There's a chance for you, if you're mean enough to turn informer.'
15
His is the universal duty of a universal informer and hunter-up of delinquents.
16
The tale-bearer, the informer, is not appreciated in the military world.
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Informer through the time
Informer across language varieties
Ireland
Common
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common