informer
Example Sentences
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Victims included officials and members of the military as well as people believed to be informers or military collaborators.
From Seattle Times
In between these plaintive contemplations, bursts of ferocity occur: A man’s nose is nearly sawed off and a horde of inmates beat a possible informer to a pulp.
From New York Times
They are Ukraine's shadow army, a network of agents and informers who operate behind enemy lines.
From BBC
They were sentenced to death for killing a woman who was an alleged informer for the junta.
From BBC
Guided by an informer, the soldiers had come around the south of the village to avoid the mines.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
