double agent
Example Sentences
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“The Sympathizer” told the story of a conflicted double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.
From Los Angeles Times
“I am also a man of two minds,” he continues, cluing us in to the truth that every immigrant sometimes feels like a double agent.
From Los Angeles Times
Several plants in the group proved unreliable, with one labeled by prosecutors a “double agent.”
From Washington Post
“The evidence at trial does not permit the court to decide whether Guo is, in fact, a dissident or a double agent,” the judge, Lewis J. Liman, wrote.
From New York Times
But those same connections have led detractors to accuse him - including in a US court - of being a double agent working for the Chinese government.
From BBC
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
