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Meanings of turncoat in English
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Examples for "renegade"
Examples for "renegade"
1
An hour passed; the renegade smoked in silence; the chiefs did likewise.
2
Chief among the latter is party renegade Julius Malema's Economic Freedom Fighters.
3
In June he ordered security forces to stop hunting the army renegade.
4
An occasional party renegade, she has not said how she will vote.
5
Either way, Omak Péle might not have been frightened into going renegade.
1
Aridius thereupon sought Clovis, in the guise of a deserter from Gondebaud.
2
Upon the line of baseness,-thedeserter is placed next to the traitor.
3
The deserter stopped for an instant, and then leaped on the horse.
4
The fellow Dupont quarrelled with and shot was a deserter named Connors.
5
The king proscribes me, and brands me as a traitor and deserter.
1
It targeted a hotel frequented by the members of the apostate government.
2
The Gods have suspended their thunder over the head of the apostate.
3
This is the same old serpent, the dragon, the apostate, the leviathan.
4
He was eating the fare of an apostate, of a despised Nazarene.
5
Frings gored Henry in his columns with the rage of an apostate.
1
The recreant or the dreamer complains that he has no real chance.
2
A conspirator who wanted to be safe was a recreant in disguise.
3
I were false and recreant if I went not to their assistance.
4
Only by being recreant to every sentiment of honor, gratitude and humanity.
5
The magistrates were recreant to their trust, he has performed their functions.
1
You wouldn't believe what a good cat, a prime ratter, fetches these days.
2
And Fan, the champion ratter, with her fifty off the reel.
3
Grey cat called Snooky who was a good ratter even with his balls cut off.
4
Both breeds are from China, but the Chinese Crested was used as a ratter on ships.
5
When properly entered he cannot be surpassed as a "ratter."
Usage of turncoat in English
1
We are not a turncoat; we had hoped that Carpentier would win.
2
Sooner or later, if there isn't a turncoat, the people make one.
3
She called Miss Abbott a turncoat and a coward to her face.
4
A man may be a turncoat in good faith, but a traitor-bah
5
Which is another reason for general GS enmity: the turncoat syndrome.
6
They know he is a turncoat from Great Nest, after all.
7
I wanted to show him I was better than my own turncoat father.
8
So now you see how easy it is, my turncoat half-daughter.
9
Luis Cervantes determined to play turncoat; indeed, mentally, he had already changed sides.
10
I will not lose a good captive and ransom for any Mercian turncoat.
11
He'd even become a British citizen, like the turncoat he was.
12
Well, there's that turncoat of a Stanhope with his fine airs.
13
He might be an asshole and a turncoat, but he was a professional.
14
I prayed that my husband, though a coward, would not become a turncoat.
15
She will see him die the death of a liar and a turncoat.
16
In the case of the turncoat government officials, the options are dead or dead.
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