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betray
verb as in be disloyal
Weak matches
- be unfaithful
- bite the hand that feeds you
- blow the whistle
- break faith
- break promise
- break trust
- break with
- commit treason
- deliver up
- double-cross
- go back on
- inform against
- inform on
- let down
- play Judas
- play false
- sell down the river
- sell out
- stab in the back
- take in
- turn in
- turn informer
- turn state's evidence
- walk out on
Example Sentences
He even agreed to betray informants under U.S. protection to Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele in exchange for an agreement to lock up purported Venezuelan gang members in El Salvador’s gruesome gulag.
The definition of an elite education has been undergoing revision of late, as top universities from Harvard to Columbia to Northwestern have too often betrayed their commitment to free inquiry on campus.
“Rather than using the safeguards other industries use, they let their trust betray them,” he said.
McClean added: "Home is home, you don't forget where you grew up… I am going to come back here one day, who am I to betray the people who basically raised me?"
Intelligence operatives working with Cuban counterintelligence agents reward those who betray conspirators with jobs, money, cars and even homes, said Edward Rodríguez, a former army colonel who fled Venezuela and lives in exile.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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