Examples of betrayer

• Professional betrayers immune to prosecution for blatantly criminal activities, they were expected to maintain low profiles and behave discreetly.

• Scientists and engineers could be useful for this or that technical task, but their professional training infected them with irredeemably bourgeois values, and made them potential betrayers.

• The potboiling artist, who sees fit to feed his own grumbling stomach, is a betrayer of both new and very old models of the artistic life.

• Anyone who blows the whistle on wrongdoing is celebrated as a hero by the public and the media, but viewed as a betrayer by the affected institutions.

• They are regarded by inmates of the camps of betrayers of their own race.

• The pilots' escape efforts form the basic story and the action sweeps across many lives: lovers, spies, fanatics, revolutionaries, friends and betrayers.

• He blessed the crowd which had gathered, pardoned his betrayers and affirmed his faith.

• The operations required professional skill because the betrayers would remain conscious when they were thrown into boiling oil.