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quisling

[kwiz-ling] / ˈkwɪz lɪŋ /


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An occupying Japanese army swept into Northeastern China and, under the quisling emperor Pu Yi, established the puppet state of Manchukuo.

From The Wall Street Journal Jan. 14, 2026

His name gave us the English word "quisling": it means a lackey, a traitor, a bootlicker.

From BBC Aug. 14, 2021

We quickly see that Travis is a quisling, the guy the officers send out to calm down those less comfortable with occupation and imprisonment.

From New York Times Sep. 20, 2015

Taliban leader Mullah Omar in the 1990s styled himself self-consciously in the tradition of 19th-century Afghan heroes, Dost Mohammad and his fierce son Mohammad Akbar, rather than the seeming quisling of Kabul, Shah Shuja.

From The Guardian Jan. 19, 2013

The visit the evening before from an NSB quisling.

From "The Hiding Place" by Corrie ten Boom




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